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###### Department of Health and Human Services

###### Food and Drug Administration

# AGENCY:

Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

# ACTION:

Notice.

This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will be open to the public.

*Name of Committee*: General Hospital and Personal Use Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee.                

*General Function of the Committee*: To provide advice and recommendations to the agency on FDA's regulatory issues.                

*Date and Time*: The meeting will be held on September 27, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.                

*Location*: Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg, Ballroom, 620 Perry Pkwy., Gaithersburg, MD.                

*Contact Person*: Scott Colburn, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (HFZ-480), Food and Drug Administration, 9200 Corporate Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850, 301-594-1287, ext. 177, or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC area), code 3014512520. Please call the Information Line for up-to-date information on this meeting.                

*Agenda*: The committee will hear a presentation on FDA's Critical Path Initiative. Subsequently, the committee will discuss and make recommendations regarding general issues related to the model used for validation testing to support a claim of decontamination of potentially transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)-contaminated surgical instruments. Background information for the topics, including the agenda and questions for the committee, will be available to the public 1 business day before the meeting, on the Internet at                     *http://www.fda.gov/​cdrh/​panelmtg.html*.                

*Procedure*: Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. Written submissions may be made to the contact person by September 13, 2005. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled for approximately 60 minutes at the beginning of deliberations and for approximately 30 minutes near the end of deliberations. Time allotted for each presentation may be limited. Those desiring to make formal oral presentations should notify the contact person before September 13, 2005, and submit a brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time requested to make their presentation.                

Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised that the agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical outlets.

FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special accommodations due to a disability, please contact AnnMarie Willliams at 240-276-0450, ext. 113, at least 7 days in advance of the meeting.

Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

Dated: August 23, 2005.

Scott Gottlieb,

Deputy Commissioner for Policy.

[FR Doc. 05-17412 Filed 8-31-05; 8:45 am]

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