[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR5.30]

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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_General Redelegations of Authority
 
Sec. 5.30  Authority to select temporary voting members for advisory 
committees and authority to sign conflict of interest waivers.

    (a) Each Center director is authorized to select members of, and 
consultants to, scientific and technical FDA advisory committees under 
that Center's management to serve temporarily as voting members on 
another advisory committee under that Center's management when expertise 
is required that is not available among current voting standing members 
of a committee or to comprise a quorum when, because of unforeseen 
circumstances, a quorum is or will be lacking. When additional voting 
members are added to a committee to provide needed expertise not 
available among current voting standing members of a committee, a quorum 
will be based on the total of regular and added members. Authority to 
select temporary voting members to advisory committees, if such voting 
members are serving on an advisory committee managed by another Center, 
has not been redelegated. This authority will continue to be exercised 
by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (Commissioner) or the Senior 
Associate Commissioner, Office of the Commissioner.
    (b) Each Center director is authorized, under 18 U.S.C. 208(b)(1), 
to sign conflict of interest waivers for special Government employees 
without substantial interest to serve as consultants to advisory 
committees or in any other capacity within the Centers except as 
advisory committee members.
    (c) These officials may not further redelegate this authority.