Notice2025-16849
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey
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September 3, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentFood and Drug Administration
Abstract
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 168 (Wednesday, September 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42593-42594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16849]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2025-N-3215]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
of Management and Budget Review; 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, the Agency, or we) is
announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Submit written comments (including recommendations) on the
collection of information by October 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are
received, OMB recommends that written comments be submitted to <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for Public
Comments'' or by using the search function. The OMB control number for
this information collection is 0910-0345. Also include the FDA docket
number found in brackets in the heading of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amber Sanford, Office of Operations,
Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-12M, 11601
Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-8867,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f6a6a4b7a582979090b6909297d89e9e85d8919980"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e2b2b0a3b196838484a2848683cc8a8a91cc858d94">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has
submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for
review and clearance.
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 2025 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 2025 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 sex
and age (based on the sex-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 aged years 18 or older drawn
from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
In the Federal Register of July 31, 2024 (89 FR 61457), FDA
published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed
collection of information. Although one comment was received, it did
not respond to any of the information collection topics solicited under
the PRA.
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 per Total
respondents respondent responses response hours
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Cognitive interview screener.. 75 1 75 0.083 (5 minutes)........ 6
Cognitive interview........... 18 1 18 1........................ 18
Pretest....................... 100 1 100 0.33 (20 minutes)........ 33
Mail survey................... 5,000 1 5,000 0.33 (20 minutes)........ 1,650
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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 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
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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.
Grace R. Graham,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Legislation, and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-16849 Filed 9-2-25; 8:45 am]
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