Department of Health and Human Services September 22, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the withdrawal of the notice published under the same title on August 25, 2016 for public comment.

The National Cancer Institute, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of an exclusive patent license to practice the inventions embodied in the U.S. Patents and Patent Applications listed in the Summary Information section of this notice to Aspyrian Therapeutics, Inc. (``Aspyrian'') located in San Diego, California USA.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a forthcoming public advisory committee meeting of the Technical Electronic Product Radiation Safety Standards Committee. The general function of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations to the Agency on FDA's regulatory issues. The meeting will be open to the public.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry #233 entitled ``Veterinary Feed Directive Common Format Questions and Answers.'' FDA had received comments requesting that we require a uniform Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) form. We declined this request because we think that requiring a specific VFD form would be too prescriptive. However, we acknowledge that a common VFD format would help veterinarians, their clients (i.e., animal producers), and distributors (including feed mills) quickly identify relevant information on the VFD. We are issuing this guidance to recommend a common VFD format. We expect this guidance will reduce potential errors on VFDs.