Notice2024-16832
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey
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July 31, 2024
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed reinstatement of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on a collection of information used to conduct a voluntary consumer survey entitled, "FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey."
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 147 (Wednesday, July 31, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61457-61459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16832]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2024-N-3029]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is
announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection
of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information,
including each proposed reinstatement of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on a collection of information
used to conduct a voluntary consumer survey entitled, ``FDA Food Safety
and Nutrition Survey.''
DATES: Either electronic or written comments on the collection of
information must be submitted by September 30, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late,
untimely filed comments will not be considered. 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 September 30, 2024. Comments
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions)
will be considered timely if they are received on or before that date.
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-2024-N-3029 for ``Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposed Collection; Comment Request; FDA Food Safety and Nutrition
Survey.'' 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.'' The Agency 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 to be made publicly available, you
can provide this information on the cover sheet and not
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: JonnaLynn Capezzuto, Office of
Operations, Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-
12M, 11601 Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-5733,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#97c7c5d6c4e3f6f1f1d7f1f3f6b9ffffe4b9f0f8e1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5f0f0d1e0c2b3e39391f393b3e7137372c71383029">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521), Federal
Agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor.
``Collection of information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR
1320.3(c) and includes Agency requests or requirements that members of
the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a
third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A))
requires Federal Agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including
each proposed reinstatement of an existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with
this requirement, FDA is publishing notice of the proposed collection
of information set forth in this document.
With respect to the following collection of information, FDA
invites comments on these topics: (1) whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of FDA's
functions, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of FDA's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques, when
appropriate, and other forms of information technology.
Food Safety and Nutrition Survey
OMB Control Number 0910-0345--Reinstatement
Under section 1003(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act (21 U.S.C. 393(b)(2)), we are authorized to conduct research
relating to foods and to conduct educational and public information
programs relating to the safety of the nation's food supply. In the
past, FDA has conducted two separate surveys, a Food Safety Survey and
a Health and Diet Survey, to measure consumers' knowledge, attitudes,
and beliefs about food safety and nutrition issues. These surveys have
been conducted every 3 to 5 years since the 1980s. In the Federal
Register of August 14, 2018 (83 FR 40293), we announced the combination
of these two surveys, which will now be the FDA Food Safety and
Nutrition Survey (FSANS). Data from FDA's food safety and nutrition
surveys have been used to support rulemaking and educational campaigns
and to measure progress toward Healthy People 2010, 2020, and 2030 food
safety goals. The proposed 2024 FSANS will contain many of the same
questions and topics as the previous surveys to facilitate measuring
trends in food safety and diet knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors over
time. The proposed survey will also be updated to explore emerging
consumer food safety and nutrition topics and to expand understanding
of previously asked topics.
The 2024 FSANS will be both a paper-and-pencil and web-based
survey. Respondents will be contacted by postal mail, using an
addressed-based sampling frame. Once contacted, respondents will be
encouraged to take the survey online. A paper-and-pencil version of the
survey will be mailed to those who do not initially take the web-based
version of the survey. One randomly selected adult from each sampled
household will be invited to participate in the survey using the Hagen-
Collier method.\1\ A total of 5,000 respondents will be surveyed. We
will sample approximately 25,000 households to offset nonresponding
households and ineligible addresses and achieve 5,000 adult
respondents. Participation in the survey will be voluntary. Cognitive
interviews and a pre-test will be conducted prior to fielding the
survey.
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\1\ In this method, we randomly select a category based on
gender and age (based on the gender-age composition of the
household), and then take the adult in that selected category.
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Description of Respondents: Respondents to this collection of
information are individuals who are adults, age 18 and older, drawn
from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as
follows:
Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden \1\
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Number of
Activity Number of responses per Total annual Average burden Total hours
respondents respondent responses per response
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Cognitive interview screener. 75 1 75 0.083 (5 6
minutes).
Cognitive interview.......... 18 1 18 1............... 18
Pretest...................... 100 1 100 0.33 (20 33
minutes).
Mail survey.................. 5,000 1 5,000 0.33 (20 1,650
minutes).
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Total.................... .............. ............... 5,193 ................ 1,707
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\1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
information.
FDA's burden estimate is based on the Agency's prior experience
with food safety and nutrition surveys. We will use a cognitive
interview screener with 75 individuals to recruit prospective interview
participants for a total of 18
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individuals. We estimate that it will take each screener respondent
approximately 5 minutes (0.083 hours) to complete the cognitive
interview screener, for a total of 6 hours. We will conduct cognitive
interviews with 18 participants. We estimate that it will take each
participant approximately 1 hour to complete the interview, for a total
of 18 hours. Prior to the administration of the surveys, the Agency
plans to conduct a pretest to identify and resolve potential survey
administration problems. The pretest will be conducted with 100
participants; we estimate that it will take each participant 20 minutes
(0.33 hours) for the pretest for a total of 33 hours. We estimate that
5,000 eligible adults will participate in the survey with each taking
20 minutes (0.33 hours), for a total of 1,650 hours. Thus, the total
estimated burden is 1,707 hours.
Dated: July 26, 2024.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2024-16832 Filed 7-30-24; 8:45 am]
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