[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR17.7]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           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).