[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: 21CFR5.21]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 5--DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY AND ORGANIZATION--Table of Contents
 
Subpart B--Redelegations of Authority from the Commissioner of Food and 
                                  Drugs
 
Sec. 5.21  Emergency functions.

    Each Regional Food and Drug Director is authorized, during any 
period when normal channels of direction are disrupted between the Food 
and Drug Administration headquarters and his region, to fully represent 
the Food and Drug Administration within his region in consonance with 
the Department of Health and Human Services regional emergency plans and 
to exercise the authority of the Commissioner for supervision of and 
direction to all Food and Drug Administration activities and use of 
resources within his region for continuity and for Federal Emergency 
Health Service operations. These same

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officials are authorized to provide in Regional Emergency Plans for the 
delegation of Food and Drug Administration regional authorities to heads 
of field activities when such activities are cut off from national and 
regional headquarters.