Department of Health and Human Services October 26, 2020 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) will be holding its second annual listening session with Sexual & Gender Minority (SGM)-focused organizations. The primary objective of the NIH's listening session is to hear from community stakeholders about what issues are on their minds regarding SGM-related research and related activities at NIH. The goal is to hold an annual listening session every year, to provide different SGM focused organizations an opportunity to speak.

In compliance with the requirement of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is seeking requests for participation from members of the public, including owners of third-party human food safety standards, interested in participating in a voluntary pilot program to evaluate third-party food safety standards. On July 13, 2020, FDA announced the New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint and the desire to explore the increased use of reliable third-party audits to help ensure safer food, including exploring the use of reliable audit data in risk-prioritization for FDA regulatory activities, for example, with respect to inspections of both imported and domestically produced foods. Under the pilot program, FDA will assess third-party food safety standards for alignment with certain FDA food safety regulations. Knowing that these third-party standards align with certain FDA food safety regulations would give those relying on audits conducted to those standards confidence that they are meeting certain FDA requirements for supplier verification audits. The pilot will enable FDA to gain information and experience that will allow the Agency to evaluate the resources and tools required to conduct alignment reviews.