[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 111 (Monday, June 9, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32586-32587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12868]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee; Notice of
Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will
be open to the public.
Name of Committee: Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory
Committee.
General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and
recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on June 25, 2008, from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Hilton Washington DC/Silver Spring, Maryland Ballroom,
8727
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Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD, 301-589-5200.
Contact Person: Elaine Ferguson, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research (HFD-21), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
(for express delivery, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1093), Rockville, MD
20857, 301-827-7001, FAX: 301-827-6776, e-mail:
[email protected], or FDA Advisory Committee Information
Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC area), code
3014512533. Please call the Information Line for up-to-date information
on this meeting. 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 agency's Web site and
call the appropriate advisory committee hot line/phone line to learn
about possible modifications before coming to the meeting.
Agenda: The committee will discuss new drug application (NDA) 22-
275, tolvaptan (proposed trade name SAMSKA), Otsuka Pharmaceutical
Development & Commercialization, Inc., for the proposed indication of
treatment of hypervolemic and euvolemic, hyponatremia. The committee
will hear presentations from FDA and the sponsors specifically
regarding change in sodium level as basis for drug approval.
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 Web site prior to the meeting, the
background material will be made publicly available at the location of
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is
available at http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/acmenu.htm, click on
the year 2008 and scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee
link.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before June
20, 2008. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between
approximately 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Those desiring to make 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 June 13, 2008. 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 June 16,
2008.
Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised
that the agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical
outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special
accommodations due to a disability, please contact Elaine Ferguson at
least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/oc/advisory/default.htm for procedures on public conduct during advisory committee
meetings.
FDA regrets that it was unable to publish this notice 15 days prior
to the June 25, 2008, Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee
meeting. Because the agency believes there is some urgency to bring
this issue to public discussion and qualified members of the
Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee were available at
this time, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs concluded that it was in
the public interest to hold this meeting even if there was not
sufficient time for the customary 15-day public notice.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: June 2, 2008.
Randall W. Lutter,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. E8-12868 Filed 6-6-08; 8:45 am]
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