Notice2022-21746
General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public Docket; Request for Comments
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October 6, 2022
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Abstract
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a forthcoming public advisory committee meeting of the General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee. The general function of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations to FDA on regulatory issues. The meeting will be open to the public. FDA is establishing a docket for public comment on this document.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 193 (Thursday, October 6, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60691-60693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21746]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2022-N-0589]
General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the Medical Devices
Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting; Establishment of a Public
Docket; Request for Comments
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice; establishment of a public docket; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces a forthcoming
public advisory committee meeting of the General and Plastic Surgery
Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee. The general
function of the committee is to provide advice and recommendations to
FDA on regulatory issues. The meeting will be open to the public. FDA
is establishing a docket for public comment on this document.
DATES: The meeting will be held virtually on October 26, 2022, from 9
a.m. Eastern Time to 6:15 p.m. Eastern Time and October 27, 2022, from
9 a.m. Eastern Time to 3 p.m. Eastern Time.
ADDRESSES: Please note that due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,
all meeting participants will be joining this advisory committee
meeting via an online teleconferencing platform. Answers to commonly
asked questions, including information regarding special accommodations
due to a disability, may be accessed at: <a href="https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm408555.htm">https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm408555.htm</a>.
FDA is establishing a docket for public comment on this meeting.
The docket number is FDA-2022-N-0589. Please note that late, untimely
filed comments will not be considered. The docket will close on
November 28, 2022. The <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> electronic filing
system will accept comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of
November 28, 2022. Comments received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for
written/paper submissions) will be considered timely if they are
received on or before that date.
Comments received on or before October 11, 2022, will be provided
to the committee. Comments received after that date will be taken into
consideration by FDA. In the event that the meeting is cancelled, FDA
will continue to evaluate any relevant applications or information, and
consider any comments submitted to the docket, as appropriate.
You may submit comments as follows:
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted
electronically, including attachments, to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information,
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
<bullet> If you want to submit a comment with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
<bullet> Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
<bullet> For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified,
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2022-N-0589 for ``General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel of the
Medical Devices Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting; Establishment of
a Public Docket; Request for Comments.'' Received comments, those filed
in a timely manner (see ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and,
except for those submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly
viewable at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> or at the Dockets Management
Staff between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 240-402-7500.
<bullet> Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' FDA will review
this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in its
consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the claimed
confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be available for
public viewing and posted on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Submit both
copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish your name
and contact information be made publicly available, you can provide
this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of your
comments and you must identify the information as ``confidential.'' Any
information marked as ``confidential'' will not be disclosed except in
accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other applicable disclosure law. For
more information about FDA's posting of comments to public dockets, see
80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access the information at: <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf</a>.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Candace Nalls, Center for Devices and
Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire
Ave., Bldg. 66, Rm. 5216, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-636-0510,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#eba88a858f8a888ec5a58a878798ab8d8f8ac5838398c58c849d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f0c2e212b2e2c2a61012e23233c0f292b2e6127273c61282039">[email protected]</span></a>, or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line,
1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC area). A notice in
the Federal Register about last minute modifications that impact a
previously announced advisory committee meeting cannot always be
published quickly enough to provide timely notice. Therefore, you
should always check the FDA's website at <a href="https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm">https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm</a> and scroll down to the appropriate
advisory committee meeting link, or call the advisory committee
information line to learn about possible modifications before the
meeting.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Agenda: The meeting presentations will be heard, viewed, captioned,
and recorded through an online teleconferencing platform. On day 1,
October 26, 2022, in the morning, the committee will discuss and make
recommendations on the classification proposal for tissue expanders and
accessories, which are currently unclassified preamendments devices, to
be class III (general controls and premarket approval) and class II
(general and special controls), and mammary sizers, which are currently
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unclassified preamendments devices, to be class II (general and special
controls). In the afternoon on the first day, the committee will
discuss and make recommendations on the classification proposals for
wound dressings with animal-derived materials, absorbable synthetic
wound dressings, and hemostatic wound dressings with or without
thrombin, which are all currently unclassified preamendments devices,
to be class II (general and special controls).
On day 2, October 27, 2022, the committee will discuss and make
recommendations on the classification proposals for nail prostheses,
which are currently unclassified preamendments devices, to be class I
(general controls); and ultrasonic surgical instruments, single-use
reprocessed ultrasonic surgical instruments, and neurosurgical
ultrasonic instruments, which are all currently unclassified
preamendments devices, to be class II (general and special controls).
FDA intends to make background material available to the public no
later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post
the background material on its website prior to the meeting, the
background material will be made publicly available on FDA's website at
the time of the advisory committee meeting, and the background material
will be posted on FDA's website after the meeting. Background material
is available at <a href="https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm">https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm</a>. Scroll down to the advisory committee meeting link.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
All electronic and written submissions to the Docket (see ADDRESSES) on
or before October 11, 2022, will be provided to the committee. Oral
presentations from the public will be scheduled on October 26, 2022,
between approximately 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Eastern Time, and 2 p.m.
and 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and on October 27, 2022, between
approximately 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Those individuals
interested in making formal oral presentations should notify the
contact person 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 on or September 30, 2022. Time
allotted for each presentation may be limited. If the number of
registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably
accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may
conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled open
public hearing session. The contact person will notify interested
persons regarding their request to speak by October 3, 2022.
For press inquiries, please contact the Office of Media Affairs at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2d4b494c42404c6d4b494c0345455e034a425b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d9bfbdb8b6b4b899bfbdb8f7b1b1aaf7beb6af">[email protected]</span></a> or 301-796-4540.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with
disabilities. If you require accommodations due to a disability, please
contact Ann Marie Williams, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a3e2cdcdeec2d1cac68df4cacfcfcac2ced0e3c5c7c28dcbcbd08dc4ccd5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e5a48b8ba884978c80cbb28c89898c848896a5838184cb8d8d96cb828a93">[email protected]</span></a> or 301-
796-5966 at least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our website at <a href="https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm">https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm</a> for procedures
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: September 30, 2022.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2022-21746 Filed 10-5-22; 8:45 am]
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