Document ID: FDA-2011-N-0002-0122
Agency: fda
Document Type: Notice
Title: National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee Notice of Meeting
Posted Date: 2011-09-30T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 190 (Friday, September 30, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60848-60849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-25148]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0002]

National Mammography Quality Assurance Advisory Committee; Notice 
of Meeting

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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    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: National Mammography Quality Assurance 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 November 4, 2011, from 8 
a.m. to 6 p.m.
    Location: Holiday Inn, Ballroom, 2 Montgomery Village Ave, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20879. The hotel's telephone number is 301-948-8900.
    Contact Person: Shanika Craig, Center for Devices and Radiological 
Health, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver 
Spring, MD 20993, 301-796-6639, Shanika.Craig@fda.hhs.gov, or FDA 
Advisory Committee Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in 
the Washington, DC area), and follow the prompts to the desired center 
or product area. Please call the Information Line for up-to-date 
information on this meeting. 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 Agency's Web site 
and call the appropriate advisory committee hot line/phone line to 
learn about possible modifications before coming to the meeting.
    Agenda: On November 4, 2011, the committee will provide advice and 
recommendations on the following issues: (1) Proposed changes to the 
Mammography Quality Standard Act (MQSA) policies and inspection 
procedures; (2) accreditation body review of soft copy mammography 
images; and (3) reporting breast density on mammography reports and 
patient lay summaries. The committee will also receive updates on the 
MQSA program and the status of the Full Field Digital Mammography 
universal quality control manual.
    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 Web site prior to the meeting, the 
background material will be made publicly available at the location of 
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be 
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is 
available at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee link.
    Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or 
views,

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orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee. Written 
submissions may be made to the contact person on or before October 21, 
2011. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between 
approximately 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. immediately following lunch. 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, the names and 
addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the 
approximate time requested to make their presentation on or before 
October 13, 2011. 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 October 14, 
2011.
    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 James Clark, at 
James.Clark@fda.hhs.gov or 301-796-5293, at least 7 days in advance of 
the meeting.
    FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee 
meetings. Please visit our Web site at http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/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. app. 2).

    Dated: September 26, 2011.
Jill Hartzler Warner,
Acting Associate Commissioner for Special Medical Programs.
[FR Doc. 2011-25148 Filed 9-29-11; 8:45 am]
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