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Guidance Documents - About Guidance

What is guidance?

Good Guidance Practice (GGP) documents are documents prepared for CDRH staff, regulated industry and the public that relate to:

the processing, content, and evaluation of regulatory submissions
the design, production, manufacturing, and testing of regulated products
the inspection and enforcement procedures

Guidance documents do not create or confer any rights for or on any person and do not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used if such approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statue, regulations, or both.

Most guidance documents exist on the Web and are available via the GGP search engine.

The following table contains the abbreviations used for Office names:

Offices

OC	Office of Compliance
OCD	Office of the Center Director
ODE	Office of Device Evaluation
OCER	Office of Communication, Education, and Radiation Programs
OMO	Office of Management Operations
OSB	Office of Surveillance and Biometrics
OSEL	Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories

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Updated June 2, 2006

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