Notice2024-05293
Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for New Drug Applications and Abbreviated New Drug Applications for Nonprescription Drug Products; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
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March 13, 2024
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for NDAs and ANDAs for Nonprescription Drug Products." This draft guidance provides recommendations to applicants of approved new drug applications (NDAs) and abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) for nonprescription drug products on documenting minor labeling changes in the next annual report and provides examples of minor labeling changes that may be submitted in an annual report. The recommendations in this draft guidance address the types of minor labeling changes that may be appropriate to submit in an annual report to ensure that consumers have timely access to the most current labeling for a nonprescription drug product to ensure the product's safe and effective use. We anticipate that these recommendations may assist industry in understanding the circumstances in which it would be appropriate to document minor changes in the applicant's next annual report rather than submitting a prior approval supplement or "changes being effected" supplement, thereby reducing burden on industry and FDA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18418-18420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05293]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2023-D-5616]
Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for New Drug Applications and
Abbreviated New Drug Applications for Nonprescription Drug Products;
Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is
announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled
``Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for NDAs and ANDAs for
Nonprescription Drug Products.'' This draft guidance provides
recommendations to applicants of approved new drug applications (NDAs)
and abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) for nonprescription drug
products on documenting minor labeling changes in the next annual
report and provides examples of minor labeling changes that may be
submitted in an annual report. The recommendations in this draft
guidance address the types of minor labeling changes that may be
appropriate to submit in an annual report to ensure that consumers have
timely access to the most current labeling for a nonprescription drug
product to ensure the product's safe and effective use. We anticipate
that these recommendations may assist industry in understanding the
circumstances in which it would be appropriate to document minor
changes in the applicant's next annual report rather than submitting a
prior approval supplement or ``changes being effected'' supplement,
thereby reducing burden on industry and FDA.
DATES: Submit either electronic or written comments on the draft
guidance by May 13, 2024 to ensure that the Agency considers your
comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final
version of the guidance.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on any guidance at any time 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-2023-D-5616 for ``Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for NDAs and
ANDAs for Nonprescription Drug Products.'' Received comments 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.'' The Agency will
review this copy, including
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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
to 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
this 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.
You may submit comments on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR
10.115(g)(5)).
Submit written requests for single copies of the draft guidance to
the Division of Drug Information, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10001 New Hampshire Ave.,
Hillandale Building, 4th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002. Send one
self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your
requests. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic
access to the draft guidance document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trang Tran, Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave.,
Bldg. 22, Rm. 4139, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 240-402-7945.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
FDA is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry
entitled ``Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for NDAs and ANDAs for
Nonprescription Drug Products.'' This draft guidance provides
recommendations to applicants of approved NDAs and ANDAs for
nonprescription drug products on documenting minor labeling changes in
the next annual report. The draft guidance also provides examples of
minor labeling changes that may be submitted in an annual report.
FDA evaluates whether the data and information submitted as part of
an NDA or ANDA for a nonprescription drug product demonstrate that the
drug product is safe and effective for nonprescription use under the
conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in its proposed
labeling.\1\ A nonprescription drug must be labeled with adequate
directions for use.\2\ Adequate directions for use are the directions
under which the consumer can use the drug safely and for the purposes
for which it is intended.\3\ Therefore, labeling for a nonprescription
drug product enables consumers to appropriately self-select and use the
nonprescription drug product safely and effectively without the
supervision of a healthcare practitioner.
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\1\ See sections 505(d) and 503(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 355(d) and 353(b)(1)).
\2\ See section 502(f)(1) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 352(f)(1)).
\3\ See 21 CFR 201.5.
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After FDA approves an NDA or ANDA, an applicant may make, or in
certain cases propose to FDA, changes to the approved application.
Section 506A of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 356a) and FDA regulations under
Sec. Sec. 314.70, 314.71, and 314.97 (21 CFR 314.70, 314.71, and
314.97) provide certain requirements for making and reporting to FDA
changes to an approved NDA or ANDA, including an NDA or ANDA for a
nonprescription drug product. Changes to an approved NDA or ANDA,
including labeling changes, are categorized into one of three reporting
categories: major, moderate, or minor.\4\
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\4\ See Sec. Sec. 314.70 and 314.97; see also the guidance for
industry entitled ``Changes to an Approved NDA or ANDA,'' available
at <a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/71846/download">https://www.fda.gov/media/71846/download</a>.
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``Minor changes'' include certain changes that have a minimal
potential to have an adverse effect on the identity, strength, quality,
purity, or potency of a drug product as these factors may relate to the
safety or effectiveness of the drug product.\5\ Minor changes with an
approved NDA or ANDA may be implemented immediately by the applicant
without the applicant submitting a supplement to FDA. The applicant
must document minor changes, including minor labeling changes, in its
next annual report in accordance with Sec. 314.81(b)(2) (21 CFR
314.81(b)(2)) (i.e., the annual report covering the period when the
change or changes occurred) submitted to FDA.\6\ The annual report must
include a summary of any changes in labeling, including minor changes,
that have been made since the last report listed by date in the order
in which they were implemented, or if no changes have been made, a
statement of that fact.\7\
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\5\ See Sec. 314.70(d).
\6\ See Sec. Sec. 314.70(d) and 314.81(b)(2). Additionally, a
representative sample of, among other things, the package labels
must be submitted in the annual report (Sec. 314.81(b)(2)(iii)(a)).
\7\ See Sec. 314.81(b)(2)(iii)(c).
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Determining the reporting category for a change to nonprescription
drug labeling may present certain considerations that differ from
changes to prescription drug labeling. Changes to the approved labeling
for a nonprescription drug product may affect consumers' ability to
appropriately self-select and use the nonprescription drug product
safely and effectively without the supervision of a healthcare
practitioner. Thus, changes to nonprescription labeling may not be
considered minor even though similar changes may be considered minor
when applied to the labeling of a prescription drug product. For
example, certain changes in the layout of the package or container
label for a prescription drug product that are consistent with FDA
regulations (e.g., 21 CFR part 201), without a change in the content of
the labeling, might not affect the safe and effective use of the
prescription drug product because it is used under the supervision of a
healthcare practitioner. In contrast, changes in the layout of the
package or container label and other changes to nonprescription drug
labeling could affect consumers' ability to comprehend the
nonprescription drug labeling and to appropriately self-select and use
the nonprescription drug product such that the change would not be a
minor change under Sec. 314.70(d).
FDA generally does not expect that editorial and similar minor
labeling changes to nonprescription drug labeling would affect
consumers' ability to appropriately self-select and use the
nonprescription drug product without the supervision of a healthcare
practitioner. Based on FDA's experience approving nonprescription drug
labeling, FDA is providing specific examples of such editorial or
similar minor labeling changes for nonprescription drug products that
may be appropriate to include in an annual report.
This draft guidance is being issued consistent with FDA's good
guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when
finalized, will represent the current thinking of FDA
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on ``Annual Reportable Labeling Changes for NDAs and ANDAs for
Nonprescription Drug Products.'' It does not establish any rights for
any person and is not binding on FDA or the public. You can use an
alternative approach if it satisfies the requirements of the applicable
statutes and regulations.
II. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
While this guidance contains no collection of information, it does
refer to previously approved FDA collections of information. The
previously approved collections of information are subject to review by
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521). The collections of information
in 21 CFR part 314 relating to the submissions of NDAs and ANDAs,
supplemental applications, and annual reports have been approved under
OMB control number 0910-0001. The collections of information in 21 CFR
part 201 for the format and content requirements for nonprescription
drug product labeling have been approved under OMB control number 0910-
0340. The collections of information in 21 CFR part 211 have been
approved under OMB control number 0910-0139.
III. Electronic Access
Persons with access to the internet may obtain the draft guidance
at <a href="https://www.fda.gov/drugs/guidance-compliance-regulatory-information/guidances-drugs">https://www.fda.gov/drugs/guidance-compliance-regulatory-information/guidances-drugs</a>, <a href="https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents">https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents</a>, or <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Dated: March 8, 2024.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2024-05293 Filed 3-12-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4164-01-P
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