[Federal Register: January 19, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 12)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee;
Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will
be open to the public.
Name of Committee: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
Advisory Committee.
General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and
recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on February 8, 2005, from 8
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Hilton Hotel, 8727 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring, MD.
Contact Person: William Freas or Sheila D. Langford, Center for
Biologics Evaluation and Research (HFM-71), Food and Drug
Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-827-0314,
or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-
0572 in the Washington, DC area), code 3014512392. Please call the
Information Line for up-to-date information on this meeting.
Agenda: The committee will discuss the following: (1) Risk
assessments for potential exposure to the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (vCJD) agent in plasma products, (2) possible vCJD risk from
investigational coagulation Factor XI manufactured in the 1990s from
plasma of donors residing in the United Kingdom, and (3) potential
deferral of blood and plasma donors for history of transfusion in
France and other European countries.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
Written submissions may be made to the contact person by February 1,
2005. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between
approximately 11:50 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., and
4:15 p.m. and 4:35 p.m. Time allotted for each presentation may be
limited. Those desiring to make formal oral presentations should notify
the contact person before February 3, 2005, and submit a brief
statement of the general nature of the evidence or arguments they wish
to present, the names and addresses of proposed participants, and an
indication of the approximate time requested to make their
presentation.
Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised
that the agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical
outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special
accommodations due to a disability, please contact William Freas or
Sheila D. Langford at least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
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Dated: January 11, 2005.
William K. Hubbard,
Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning.
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