October 26-27, 2022: Basic and Plastic Surgical procedure Units Panel of the Medical Units Advisory Committee Assembly Announcement – 10/26/2022

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Meals and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2022-N-0589]

Basic and Plastic Surgical procedure Units Panel of the Medical Units Advisory Committee; Discover of Assembly; Institution of a Public Docket; Request for Feedback

AGENCY:  Meals and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION:  Discover; institution of a public docket; request for feedback.

SUMMARY:  The Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) pronounces a forthcoming public advisory committee assembly of the Basic and Plastic Surgical procedure Units Panel of the Medical Units Advisory Committee.  The final perform of the committee is to offer recommendation and proposals to FDA on regulatory points.  The assembly will probably be open to the general public.  FDA is establishing a docket for public touch upon this doc.

DATES:  The assembly will probably be held nearly on October 26, 2022, from 9 a.m. Japanese Time to six:15 p.m. Japanese Time and October 27, 2022, from 9 a.m. Japanese Time to three p.m. Japanese Time.

ADDRESSES:  Please observe that because of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, all assembly contributors will probably be becoming a member of this advisory committee assembly through a web-based teleconferencing platform.  Solutions to generally requested questions, together with data relating to particular lodging attributable to a incapacity, could also be accessed at:  https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm408555.htm.

FDA is establishing a docket for public touch upon this assembly. The docket quantity is FDA-2022-N-0589.  The docket will shut on November 28, 2022.  Both digital or written feedback on this public assembly should be submitted by November 28, 2022.  Please observe that late, premature filed feedback is not going to be thought of.  The https://www.rules.gov digital submitting system will settle for feedback till 11:59 p.m. Japanese Time on the finish of November 28, 2022. Feedback obtained by mail/hand supply/courier (for written/paper submissions) will probably be thought of well timed if they’re obtained on or earlier than that date. 

Feedback obtained on or earlier than October 11, 2022, will probably be supplied to the committee. Feedback obtained after that date will probably be considered by FDA.  Within the occasion that the assembly is cancelled, FDA will proceed to judge any related functions or data, and think about any feedback submitted to the docket, as applicable. 

You could submit feedback as follows: 

Digital Submissions

Submit digital feedback within the following means:

• Federal eRulemaking Portal:  https://www.rules.gov.  Observe the directions for submitting feedback.  Feedback submitted electronically, together with attachments, to https://www.rules.gov will probably be posted to the docket unchanged.  As a result of your remark will probably be made public, you might be solely answerable for making certain that your remark doesn’t embody any confidential data that you simply or a 3rd social gathering could not want to be posted, equivalent to medical data, your or anybody else’s Social Safety quantity, or confidential enterprise data, equivalent to a producing course of.  Please observe that in the event you embody your title, contact data, or different data that identifies you within the physique of your feedback, that data will probably be posted on https://www.rules.gov.
• If you wish to submit a remark with confidential data that you don’t want to be made obtainable to the general public, submit the remark as a written/paper submission and within the method detailed (see “Written/Paper Submissions” and “Directions”). 

Written/Paper Submissions

Submit written/paper submissions as follows:

• Mail/Hand supply/Courier (for written/paper submissions):  Dockets Administration Workers (HFA-305), Meals and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
• For written/paper feedback submitted to the Dockets Administration Workers, FDA will publish your remark, in addition to any attachments, apart from data submitted, marked and recognized, as confidential, if submitted as detailed in “Directions.”

Directions:  All submissions obtained should embody the Docket No. FDA-2022-N-0589 for “Basic and Plastic Surgical procedure Units Panel of the Medical Units Advisory Committee; Discover of Assembly; Institution of a Public Docket; Request for Feedback.”  Acquired feedback, these filed in a well timed method (see ADDRESSES), will probably be positioned within the docket and, apart from these submitted as “Confidential Submissions,” publicly viewable at https://www.rules.gov or on the Dockets Administration Workers between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday by way of Friday, 240-402-7500.

• Confidential Submissions–To submit a remark with confidential data that you don’t want to be made publicly obtainable, submit your feedback solely as a written/paper submission.  It is best to submit two copies complete.  One copy will embody the data you declare to be confidential with a heading or cowl observe that states “THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.”  FDA will overview this copy, together with the claimed confidential data, in its consideration of feedback.  The second copy, which could have the claimed confidential data redacted/blacked out, will probably be obtainable for public viewing and posted on https://www.rules.gov.  Submit each copies to the Dockets Administration Workers.  If you don’t want your title and phone data be made publicly obtainable, you’ll be able to present this data on the duvet sheet and never within the physique of your feedback and it’s essential to establish the data as “confidential.”  Any data marked as “confidential” is not going to be disclosed besides in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and different relevant disclosure regulation.  For extra details about FDA’s posting of feedback to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September18, 2015, or entry the data at:  https://www.govinfo.gov/content material/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.

Docket:  For entry to the docket to learn background paperwork or the digital and written/paper feedback obtained, go to https://www.rules.gov and insert the docket quantity, present in brackets within the heading of this doc, into the “Search” field and comply with the prompts and/or go to the Dockets Administration Workers, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Candace Nalls, Heart for Units and Radiological Well being, Meals and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 66, Rm 5216, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-636-0510, [email protected], or FDA Advisory Committee Info Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 within the Washington, DC space).  A discover within the Federal Register about final minute modifications that influence a beforehand introduced advisory committee assembly can not all the time be printed rapidly sufficient to offer well timed discover.  Subsequently, you need to all the time test the FDA’s web site at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm and scroll right down to the suitable advisory committee assembly hyperlink, or name the advisory committee data line to study doable modifications earlier than the assembly.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Agenda:  The assembly shows will probably be heard, seen, captioned, and recorded by way of a web-based teleconferencing platform.  On day 1, October 26, 2022, within the morning, the committee will talk about and make suggestions on the classification proposal for tissue expanders, that are presently unclassified preamendments units, to be class III (common controls and premarket approval), and breast implant sizers, that are presently unclassified preamendments units, to be class II (common and particular controls).  Within the afternoon on the primary day, the committee will talk about and make suggestions on the classification proposals for wound dressings with animal-derived supplies, absorbable artificial wound dressings, and hemostatic wound dressings that both comprise or don’t comprise thrombin, or different organic merchandise, that are all presently unclassified preamendments units, to be class II (common and particular controls).

On day 2, October 27, 2022, the committee will talk about and make suggestions on the classification proposals for nail protheses, that are presently unclassified preamendments units, to be class I (common controls); and ultrasonic surgical devices, reprocessed ultrasonic surgical scalpels, and ultrasonic neurosurgical fragmentation and aspiration units, that are all presently unclassified preamendments units, to be class II (common and particular controls).

FDA intends to make background materials obtainable to the general public no later than 2 enterprise days earlier than the assembly.  If FDA is unable to publish the background materials on its web site previous to the assembly, the background materials will probably be made publicly obtainable on FDA’s web site on the time of the advisory committee assembly, and the background materials will probably be posted on FDA’s web site after the assembly.  Background materials is obtainable at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm.  Scroll right down to the advisory committee assembly hyperlink.

Process:   individuals could current knowledge, data, or views, orally or in writing, on points pending earlier than the committee.  All digital and written submissions submitted to the Docket (see ADDRESSES) on or earlier than October 11, 2022, will probably be supplied to the committee.  Oral shows from the general public will probably be scheduled on October 26, 2022, between roughly 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Japanese Time, and a couple of p.m. and a couple of:30 p.m. Japanese Time, and on October 27, 2022, between roughly 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Japanese Time. These people all for making formal oral shows ought to notify the contact individual and submit a quick assertion of the final nature of the proof or arguments they want to current, the names and addresses of proposed contributors, and a sign of the approximate time requested to make their presentation on or September 30, 2022.  Time allotted for every presentation could also be restricted.  If the variety of registrants requesting to talk is larger than might be moderately accommodated through the scheduled open public listening to session, FDA could conduct a lottery to find out the audio system for the scheduled open public listening to session.  The contact individual will notify individuals relating to their request to talk by October 3, 2022.

For press inquiries, please contact the Workplace of Media Affairs at [email protected] or 301-796-4540.

FDA welcomes the attendance of the general public at its advisory committee conferences and can make each effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities.  For those who require lodging attributable to a incapacity, please contact Ann Marie Williams, at [email protected] or 301-796-5966 not less than 7 days prematurely of the assembly.

FDA is dedicated to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee conferences. Please go to our web site at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures on public conduct throughout advisory committee conferences.

Discover of this assembly is given underneath the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).

Dated:  September 9, 2022.

Lauren Ok. Roth,

Affiliate Commissioner for Coverage.