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not withdrawn from sale for reasons of 

safety or effectiveness. 

Accordingly, the Agency will 

continue to list QMIIZ (meloxicam) 

Orally Disintegrating Tablets, 7.5 mg 

and 15 mg, in the ‘‘Discontinued Drug 

Product List’’ section of the Orange 

Book. The ‘‘Discontinued Drug Product 

List’’ delineates, among other items, 

drug products that have been 

discontinued from marketing for reasons 

other than safety or effectiveness. 

ANDAs that refer to QMIIZ (meloxicam) 

Orally Disintegrating Tablets, 7.5 mg 

and 15 mg, may be approved by the 

Agency as long as they meet all other 

legal and regulatory requirements for 

the approval of ANDAs. If FDA 

determines that labeling for this drug 

product should be revised to meet 

current standards, the Agency will 

advise ANDA applicants to submit such 

labeling. 

Dated: February 6, 2024. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2024–N–0014] 

Vaccines and Related Biological 

Products 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. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) announces a 

forthcoming public advisory committee 

meeting of the Vaccines and Related 

Biological Products Advisory 

Committee (VRBPAC). The general 

function of the committee is to provide 

advice and recommendations to FDA on 

regulatory issues. This meeting will be 

held to discuss and make 

recommendations on the selection of 

strains to be included in the influenza 

virus vaccines for the 2024 to 2025 

influenza season. The meeting will be 

open to the public. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

virtually on March 5, 2024, from 9 a.m. 

to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: All meeting participants 

will be heard, viewed, captioned, and 

recorded for this advisory committee 

meeting via an online teleconferencing 

and/or video conferencing platform. The 

online web conference meeting will be 

available at the following link on the 

day of the meeting: https://

youtube.com/live/Wf0aE32DPKc. 

Answers to commonly asked 

questions about FDA advisory 

committee meetings may be accessed at: 

https://www.fda.gov/Advisory

Committees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ 

ucm408555.htm. FDA is establishing a 

docket for public comment on this 

meeting. The docket number is FDA– 

2024–N–0014. The docket will close on 

March 4, 2024. Please note that late, 

untimely filed comments will not be 

considered. The https://

www.regulations.gov electronic filing 

system will accept comments until 

11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of 

March 4, 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. 

Comments received on or before 

February 26, 2024, will be provided to 

the committee. Comments received on 

or after February 26, 2024, and by 

March 4, 2024, 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: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Comments submitted electronically, 

including attachments, to https://

www.regulations.gov 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 https://www.regulations.gov. 

• 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: 

• 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. 

• 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–0014 for ‘‘Vaccines and Related 

Biological Products Advisory 

Committee (VRBPAC); 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 

https://www.regulations.gov or at the 

Dockets Management Staff between 9 

a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, 240–402–7500. 


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• 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 https://

www.regulations.gov. 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: https://

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015- 

09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or the 

electronic and written/paper comments 

received, go to https://

www.regulations.gov 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: 

Sussan Paydar or Valerie Vashio, Center 

for Biologics Evaluation and Research, 

Food and Drug Administration, 10903 

New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Silver 

Spring, MD 20993–0002, 202–657–8533, 

CBERVRBPAC@fda.hhs.gov 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 https://www.fda.gov/ 

AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm and 

scroll down to the appropriate advisory 

committee meeting link, or call the 

advisory committee information line to 

learn about possible modifications 

before coming to the meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda: The meeting presentations 

will be heard, viewed, captioned, and 

recorded through an online 

teleconferencing and/or video 

conferencing platform. On March 5, 

2024, the committee will meet in open 

session to discuss and make 

recommendations on the selection of 

strains to be included in the influenza 

virus vaccines for the 2024 to 2025 

influenza season. 

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. Background 

material and the link to the online 

teleconference and/or video conference 

meeting will be available at: https://

www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/ 

Calendar/default.htm. Scroll down to 

the appropriate advisory committee 

meeting link. The meeting will include 

slide presentations with audio and 

video components to allow the 

presentation of materials in a manner 

that most closely resembles an in-person 

advisory committee meeting. 

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 February 26, 

2024, will be provided to the 

Committee. Comments received on or 

after February 26, 2024, and by March 

4, 2024, will be taken into consideration 

by FDA. Oral presentations from the 

public will be scheduled between 

approximately 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.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, along 

with their names, email addresses, and 

direct contact phone numbers of 

proposed participants, on or before 12 

p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, February 

16, 2024. 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 6 p.m. Wednesday, 

February 21, 2024. 

For press inquiries, please contact the 

Office of Media Affairs at fdaoma@

fda.hhs.gov 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 Sussan Paydar 

or Valerie Vashio (See FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT) 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 

https://www.fda.gov/Advisory

Committees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ 

ucm111462.htm 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. 1001 et seq.) This meeting notice 

also serves as notice that, pursuant to 21 

CFR 10.19, the requirements in 21 CFR 

14.22(b), (f), and (g) relating to the 

location of advisory committee meetings 

are hereby waived to allow for this 

meeting to take place using an online 

meeting platform. This waiver is in the 

interest of allowing greater transparency 

and opportunities for public 

participation, in addition to 

convenience for advisory committee 

members, speakers, and guest speakers. 

The conditions for issuance of a waiver 

under 21 CFR 10.19 are met. 

Dated: February 6, 2024. 

Lauren K. Roth, 

Associate Commissioner for Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2023–N–4717] 

Brendon Gagne: Final Debarment 

Order 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA) is issuing an 

order under the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act) debarring 

Brendon Gagne for a period of 5 years 

from importing or offering for import 

any drug into the United States. FDA 

bases this order on a finding that Mr. 

Gagne was convicted of one felony 


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