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 Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0633]
 AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
 ACTION: Notice.
 SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 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: Fax written comments on the collection of information by April 13, 2009.
 ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: FDA Desk Officer, FAX: 202-395-6974, or e-mailed to 
                        *oira_submission@omb.eop.gov*. All comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910-0230. Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document.
 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Berbakos, Office of Information Management (HFA-710), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-796-3792.


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. Postmarketing Adverse Drug Experience Reporting (OMB Control Number 0910-0230—Extension) Sections 201, 502, 505, and 701 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) (21 U.S.C. 321, 352, 355, and 371) require that marketed drugs be safe and effective. In order to know whether drugs that are not safe and effective are on the market, FDA must be promptly informed of adverse experiences occasioned by the use of marketed drugs. In order to help ensure this, FDA issued regulations at §§ 310.305 and 314.80 (21 CFR 310.305 and 314.80) to impose reporting and recordkeeping requirements on the drug industry that would enable FDA to take the action 
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                    necessary to protect the public health from adverse drug experiences. All applicants who have received marketing approval of drug products are required to report to FDA serious, unexpected adverse drug experiences, as well as followup reports when needed (§ 314.80(c)(1)). This includes reports of all foreign or domestic adverse experiences as well as those based on information from applicable scientific literature and certain reports from postmarketing studies. Section 314.80(c)(1)(iii) pertains to such reports submitted by non-applicants. Under § 314.80(c)(2), applicants must provide periodic reports of adverse drug experiences. A periodic report includes, for the reporting interval, reports of serious, expected adverse drug experiences and all nonserious adverse drug experiences and an index of these reports, a narrative summary and analysis of adverse drug experiences and a history of actions taken because of adverse drug experiences. Under § 314.80(i), applicants must keep records of all adverse drug experience reports known to the applicant for 10 years. For marketed prescription drug products without approved new drug applications or abbreviated new drug applications, manufacturers, packers, and distributors are required to report to FDA serious, unexpected adverse drug experiences as well as followup reports when needed (§ 310.305(c)). Section 310.305(c)(5) pertains to the submission of followup reports to reports forwarded by FDA. Under § 310.305(f), each manufacturer, packer, and distributor shall maintain for 10 years records of all adverse drug experiences required to be reported. The primary purpose of FDA's adverse drug experience reporting system is to provide a signal for potentially serious safety problems with marketed drugs. Although premarket testing discloses a general safety profile of a new drug's comparatively common adverse effects, the larger and more diverse patient populations exposed to the marketed drug provide the opportunity to collect information on rare, latent, and long-term effects. Signals are obtained from a variety of sources, including reports from patients, treating physicians, foreign regulatory agencies, and clinical investigators. Information derived from the adverse drug experience reporting system contributes directly to increased public health protection because the information enables FDA to make important changes to the product's labeling (such as adding a new warning), decisions about risk evaluation and mitigation strategies or the need for postmarket studies or clinical trials, and when necessary, to initiate removal of a drug from the market. Respondents to this collection of information are manufacturers, packers, distributors, and applicants. In the 
                    **Federal Register**
                     of December 16, 2008 (73 FR 76358), FDA published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the information collection provisions. No comments were received on the information collection. FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows: **Table 1.—Estimated Annual Reporting Burden**1
21 CFR Section
No. of
                             Respondents
Annual Frequency per Response
Total Annual
                             Responses
Hours per
                             Response
Total Hours310.305(c)(5)
1
1
1
1
1314.80(c)(1)(iii)
5
1
5
1
5314.80(c)(2)
642
17.88
11,478
60
688,680Total
688,6861
                         The reporting burden for §§ 310.305(c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(3), and 314.80(c)(1)(i) and (c)(1)(ii) was reported under OMB control no. 0910-0291. The capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information are approximately $25,000 annually.
 **Table 2.—Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden**1
21 CFR Section
No. of
                             Recordkeepers
Annual Frequency per Recordkeeping
Total Annual Records
Hours per Record
Total Hours310.305(f)
25
1
25
16
400314.80(i)
642
623
400,000
16
6,400,000Total
7,088,6801
                        There are no capital costs or operating costs associated with this collection of information. There are maintenance costs of $22,000 annually.
 Dated: March 6, 2009. Jeffrey Shuren, Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning.


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