| Page Range | 60203-60204 | |
| FR Document | 2017-27255 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 19, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 60203-60204] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-27255] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0075] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Good Laboratory Practice Regulations for Nonclinical Studies AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by January 18, 2018. ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer, Fax: 202-395-7285, or emailed to [email protected]. All comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910-0119. Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ila S. Mizrachi, Office of Operations, Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-12M, 11601 Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-7726, [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for review and clearance. Good Laboratory Practice Regulations for Nonclinical Studies--21 CFR Part 58 OMB Control Number 0910-0119--Extension Sections 409, 505, 512, and 515 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 348, 355, 360b, and 360e) and related statutes require manufacturers of food additives, human drugs and biological products, animal drugs, and medical devices to demonstrate the safety and utility of their product by submitting applications to FDA for research or marketing permits. Such applications contain, among other important items, full reports of all studies done to demonstrate product safety in man and/or other animals. In order to ensure adequate quality control for these studies and to provide an adequate degree of consumer protection, the Agency issued good laboratory practice (GLP) regulations for nonclinical laboratory studies in part 58 (21 CFR part 58). The regulations specify minimum standards for the proper conduct of safety testing and contain sections on facilities, personnel, equipment, standard operating procedures (SOPs), test and control articles, quality assurance, protocol and conduct of a safety study, records and reports, and laboratory disqualification. Part 58 requires testing facilities engaged in conducting toxicological studies to retain, and make available to regulatory officials, records regarding compliance with GLPs. Records are maintained on file at each testing facility and examined there periodically by FDA inspectors. The GLP regulations require that, for each nonclinical laboratory study, a final report be prepared that documents the results of quality assurance unit inspections, test and control article characterization, testing of mixtures of test and control articles with carriers, and an overall interpretation of nonclinical laboratory studies. The GLP regulations also require written records pertaining to: (1) Personnel job descriptions and summaries of training and experience; (2) master schedules, protocols and amendments thereto, inspection reports, and SOPs; (3) equipment inspection, maintenance, calibration, and testing records; (4) documentation of feed and water analyses, and animal treatments; (5) test article accountability records; and (6) study documentation and raw data. Recordkeeping is necessary to document the conduct of nonclinical laboratory studies of FDA-regulated products to ensure the quality and integrity of the resulting final study report on which a regulatory decision may be based. Written SOPs and records of actions taken are essential for testing facilities to implement GLPs effectively. Further, they are essential for FDA to be able to determine a testing facility's compliance with the GLP regulations in part 58. In a notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register of August 24, 2016 (81 FR 58342), we proposed changes in our GLP regulations, including some of those listed in tables 1 and 2 of this document. The document included [[Page 60204]] revised burden estimates for the proposed changes and solicited public comment. In response to requests, the comment period was extended to January 21, 2017 (81 FR 75351, October 31, 2016). In the interim, FDA is seeking an extension of OMB approval for the current regulations so that we can continue to collect information while the proposal is pending. Description of Respondents: The likely respondents collecting this information are contract laboratories, sponsors of FDA-regulated products, universities, or government agencies. In the Federal Register of April 25, 2017 (82 FR 19054), FDA published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed collection of information. We received no comments. FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows: Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden \1\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of 21 CFR section/activity Number of responses per Total annual Average burden Total hours respondents respondent responses per response ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58.35(b)(7); Quality assurance 300 60.25 18,075 1 18,075 unit........................... 58.185; Reporting of nonclinical 300 60.25 18,075 27.65 499,774 laboratory study results....... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 517,849 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ There are no capital costs or operating maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. Table 2--Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden \1\ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of 21 CFR section/activity Number of records per Total annual Average burden per recordkeeping (in Total hours recordkeepers recordkeeper records hours) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58.29(b); Personnel......................... 300 20 6,000 .21 (13 minutes).......................... 1,260 58.35(b)(1)-(6), and (c); Quality assurance 300 270.76 81,228 3.36...................................... 272,926 unit. 58.63(b) and (c); Maintenance and 300 60 18,000 .09 (5 minutes)........................... 1,620 calibration of equipment. 58.81(a)-(c); SOPs.......................... 300 301.8 90,540 .14 (8 minutes)........................... 12,676 58.90(c) and (g); Animal care............... 300 62.7 18,810 .13 (8 minutes)........................... 2,445 58.105(a) and (b); Test and control article 300 5 1,500 11.8...................................... 17,700 characterization. 58.107(d); Test and control article handling 300 1 300 4.25...................................... 1,275 58.113(a); Mixtures of articles with 300 15.33 4,599 6.8....................................... 31,273 carriers. 58.120; Protocol............................ 300 15.38 4,614 32.7...................................... 150,878 58.195; Retention of records................ 300 251.5 75,450 3.9....................................... 294,255 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total................................... .............. .............. .............. .......................................... 786,308 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. The annual burden for the information collection requirements in these regulations is estimated at 1,304,157 burden hours (517,849 + 786,308 = 1,304,157). The hours per response estimates are based on our experience with similar programs and information received from industry. Dated: December 13, 2017. Leslie Kux, Associate Commissioner for Policy. [FR Doc. 2017-27255 Filed 12-18-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4164-01-P
| Category | Regulatory Information | |
| Collection | Federal Register | |
| sudoc Class | AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: | |
| Publisher | Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice. | |
| Dates | Fax written comments on the collection of information by January 18, 2018. | |
| Contact | Ila S. Mizrachi, Office of Operations, Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-12M, 11601 Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-7726, [email protected] | |
| FR Citation | 82 FR 60203 |