[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51680-51682]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18087]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2022-N-1777]


Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology Advisory 
Committee; Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request 
for Comments

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice; establishment of a public docket; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a forthcoming 
public advisory committee meeting of the Pharmaceutical Science and 
Clinical Pharmacology Advisory Committee. The general function of the 
committee is to provide advice and recommendations to FDA on regulatory 
issues. The meeting will be open to the public. FDA is establishing a 
docket for public comment on this document.

DATES: The meeting will be held virtually on November 2, 2022, from 9 
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time and November 3, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 
3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

ADDRESSES: Please note that due to the impact of this COVID-19 
pandemic, all meeting participants will be joining this advisory 
committee meeting via an online teleconferencing platform. Answers to 
commonly asked questions about FDA advisory committee meetings may be 
accessed at: https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm408555.htm.
    FDA is establishing a docket for public comment on this meeting. 
The docket number is FDA-2022-N-1777.

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The docket will close on November 1, 2022. Either electronic or written 
comments on this public meeting must be submitted by November 1, 2022. 
Please note that late, untimely filed comments will not be considered. 
The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept 
comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of November 1, 2022. 
Comments received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper 
submissions) will be considered timely if they are received on or 
before that date.
    Comments received on or before October 19, 2022, will be provided 
to the committee. Comments received after that date will be taken into 
consideration by FDA. In the event that the meeting is cancelled, FDA 
will continue to evaluate any relevant applications or information, and 
consider any comments submitted to the docket, as appropriate.
    You may submit comments as follows:

Electronic Submissions

    Submit electronic comments in the following way:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted 
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov 
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be 
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment 
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party 
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone 
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information, 
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your 
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in 
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
     If you want to submit a comment with confidential 
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public, 
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner 
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').

Written/Paper Submissions

    Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
     Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for written/paper 
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug 
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
     For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets 
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any 
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified, 
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No. 
FDA-2022-N-1777 for ``Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology 
Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public 
Docket; Request for Comments.'' Received comments, those filed in a 
timely manner (see ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and, except 
for those submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable 
at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Dockets Management Staff 
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 240-402-7500.
     Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with 
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly 
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You 
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information 
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states 
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' FDA will review 
this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in its 
consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the claimed 
confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be available for 
public viewing and posted on https://www.regulations.gov. Submit both 
copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish your name 
and contact information be made publicly available, you can provide 
this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of your 
comments and you must identify the information as ``confidential.'' Any 
information marked as ``confidential'' will not be disclosed except in 
accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other applicable disclosure law. For 
more information about FDA's posting of comments to public dockets, see 
80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access the information at: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in 
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the 
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, 
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rhea Bhatt, Center for Drug Evaluation 
and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., 
Bldg. 31, Rm. 2417, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-708-1707, Fax: 
301-847-8533, email: [email protected], or FDA Advisory Committee 
Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC 
area). A notice in the Federal Register about last minute modifications 
that impact a previously announced advisory committee meeting cannot 
always be published quickly enough to provide timely notice. Therefore, 
you should always check the FDA's website at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm and scroll down to the appropriate 
advisory committee meeting link, or call the advisory committee 
information line to learn about possible modifications before coming to 
the meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Agenda: The meeting presentations will be heard, viewed, captioned, 
and recorded through an online teleconferencing platform. The meeting 
will focus on two topics related to the Office of Pharmaceutical 
Quality's mission of promoting the availability of quality medicines 
for the American public. On November 2, 2022, the committee will 
discuss the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Quality 
Management Maturity (QMM) program. QMM is the state attained when drug 
manufacturers have consistent, reliable, and robust business processes 
to achieve quality objectives and promote continual improvement. CDER 
has proposed the development of a rating system that will help 
incentivize drug manufacturers to adopt more mature quality management 
practices at their facilities. The committee will consider the impact 
that a QMM program would have on the pharmaceutical industry, drug 
shortages, and supply chain resiliency. FDA will seek input to 
determine if experts from academia and industry support the development 
of a CDER QMM program to incentivize investments in mature quality 
management practices.
    On November 3, 2022, as part of CDER's continued effort to provide 
key updates on modernization of quality assessment, the committee will 
discuss the next stages of Knowledge-Aided Assessment and Structured 
Application (KASA). The concept of KASA was envisioned in 2016 and 
discussed at the Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology 
Advisory Committee Meeting on September 20, 2018, as an

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information technology system that modernizes FDA's assessment. Through 
the development, testing, and implementation of various KASA 
prototypes, the KASA system has been refined over the course of 
multiple years. FDA will seek input on the vision and plan to expand 
KASA over the next 5 years to include drug substances, all generic 
dosage forms, new drug and biologics applications, and post-approval 
changes. Moreover, FDA will seek input regarding the need for advancing 
digitalization in KASA, including data standardization and mobilization 
of data from cloud-based servers.
    FDA intends to make background material available to the public no 
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post 
the background material on its website prior to the meeting, the 
background material will be made publicly available on FDA's website at 
the time of the advisory committee meeting. Background material and the 
link to the online teleconference meeting room will be available at 
https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm. Scroll 
down to the appropriate advisory committee meeting link. The meeting 
will include slide presentations with audio components to allow the 
presentation of materials in a manner that most closely resembles an 
in-person advisory committee meeting.
    Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or 
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. 
All electronic and written submissions submitted to the Docket (see 
ADDRESSES) on or before October 19, 2022, will be provided to the 
committee. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between 
approximately 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern Time on November 2, 2022. Oral 
presentations from the public will also be scheduled between 
approximately 1:10 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. Eastern Time on November 3, 2022. 
Those individuals interested in making formal oral presentations should 
notify the contact person and submit a brief statement of the general 
nature of the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and 
addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the 
approximate time requested to make their presentation on or before 
October 11, 2022. Time allotted for each presentation may be limited. 
If the number of registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be 
reasonably accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing 
session, FDA may conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the 
scheduled open public hearing session. The contact person will notify 
interested persons regarding their request to speak by October 12, 
2022.
    For press inquiries, please contact the Office of Media Affairs at 
[email protected] or 301-796-4540.
    FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee 
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with 
disabilities. If you require accommodations due to a disability, please 
contact Rhea Bhatt (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 7 
days in advance of the meeting.
    FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee 
meetings. Please visit our website at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures 
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
    Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

    Dated: August 17, 2022.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2022-18087 Filed 8-22-22; 8:45 am]
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