[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR13.15]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 13--PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE A PUBLIC BOARD OF INQUIRY--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 13.15  Separation of functions; ex parte communications; administrative support.

    (a) The proceeding of a Board are subject to the provisions of 
Sec. 10.55 relating to separation of functions and ex parte 
communications. Representatives of the participants in any proceeding 
before a Board, including any members of the office of the Chief Counsel 
of FDA assigned to advise the center responsible for the matter, may 
have no contact with the members of the Board, except as participants in 
the proceeding, and may not participate in the deliberations of the 
Board.

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    (b) Administrative support for a Board is to be provided only by the 
office of the Commissioner and the office of the Chief Counsel for FDA.

[44 FR 22348, Apr. 13, 1979, as amended at 54 FR 9035, Mar. 3, 1989]