[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR17.7]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                    SUBTITLE A--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 17_RELEASE OF ADVERSE INFORMATION TO NEWS MEDIA--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  17.7  Retractions or corrections.



    Where the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs finds that 

information released by the Department was misleading or a misstatement 

of fact and any person named therein requests a retraction or 

correction, the Department shall issue a retraction or correction in the 

same manner to all of the media outlets that received the original 

information (or as many of them as is feasible). Where information shown 

to be misleading or misstatement of fact has been released by a 

principal



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operating component of the Department and any person named therein 

requests a retraction or correction, the agency head shall issue a 

retraction or correction in the same manner to all of the media outlets 

that received the original information (or as many of them as is 

feasible).