Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Current Good Manufacturing Practices for Positron Emission Tomography Drugs

Published date04 September 2019
Citation84 FR 46537
Record Number2019-19030
SectionNotices
CourtFood And Drug Administration
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2019)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 46537-46543]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-19030]
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                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
                Food and Drug Administration
                [Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0242]
                Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
                of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Current Good
                Manufacturing Practices for Positron Emission Tomography Drugs
                AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
                ACTION: Notice.
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                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 October
                4, 2019.
                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: 202-395-7285, or emailed to [email protected]. All
                comments should be identified with the OMB control number 0910-0667.
                Also include the FDA docket number found in brackets in the heading of
                this document.
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                FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Domini Bean, Office of Operations,
                Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-12M, 11601
                Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-5733,
                [email protected].
                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.
                Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) for Positron Emission
                Tomography (PET) Drugs
                OMB Control Number 0910-0667--Extension
                 PET is a medical imaging modality involving the use of a unique
                type of radiopharmaceutical drug product. Our CGMP regulations at part
                212 (21 CFR part 212) are intended to ensure that PET drug products
                meet the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C
                Act) regarding safety, identity, strength, quality, and purity. The
                CGMP requirements for PET drugs are issued under the provisions of the
                Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) (Pub. L.
                105-115). These CGMP requirements are designed according to the unique
                characteristics of PET drugs, including their short half-lives, and the
                fact that most PET drugs are produced at locations close to the
                patients to whom the drugs are administered.
                 The CGMP regulations require the establishment of written
                procedures as well as recordkeeping related to ongoing manufacturing of
                individual PET drugs, testing, and product release activities,
                including any third-party disclosure requirements for producing PET
                drugs. To estimate time spent to comply with the requirements, we
                relied on informal communications with PET producers, FDA staff visits
                to PET facilities, our familiarity with PET and general pharmaceutical
                manufacturing practices with application and supplement submissions,
                and various reports FDA received from 2016 through 2018.
                I. Investigational and Research PET Drugs
                 Section 212.5(b) provides that for investigational PET drugs
                produced under an investigational new drug application (IND) and
                research PET drugs produced with approval of a Radioactive Drug
                Research Committee (RDRC), the requirement (FD&C Act) to follow CGMP is
                met by complying with the regulations under part 212 or complying with
                United States Pharmacopeia (USP) 32 Chapter 823. We believe that PET
                production facilities producing drugs under INDs and RDRCs are already
                substantially complying with the recordkeeping requirements of USP 32
                Chapter 823 (see section 121(b) of FDAMA). Some IND and RDRC PET
                facilities also produce approved NDA (new drug application) and
                abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) PET drugs. While we do not have
                sufficient information to estimate burdens for all IND and RDRC PET
                facilities, our estimates have included those facilities that also
                produce NDA and ANDA PET drugs. Those facilities are included under
                academic and small firms.
                II. Recordkeeping Burden
                A. One-Time Burden for Corporate Firms
                 We estimate corporate firms will have to employ one-time and
                ongoing annual recordkeeping. There are three major PET manufacturing
                corporations and most of the quality, manufacturing, and testing
                procedures are developed at the corporate level and then issued to the
                individual sites located in various States across the country. There
                are an estimated 115 such sites under three major corporations. Thus,
                the burden has been calculated for 3 recordkeepers instead of 115
                individual sites.
                 It would take approximately 8 hours for each corporate firm to
                create one master batch record per drug, and an average of three PET
                drugs have been taken into consideration. We also estimate that
                approximately 3 firms will create and maintain approximately 27 records
                associated with production and quality testing for an average of 3
                drugs, with a total recordkeeping burden of approximately 216 hours.
                 Sections 212.20(c), 212.30(b), 212.50(d), and 212.60(f) (21 CFR
                212.20(c), 212.30(b), 212.50(d), and 212.60(f)) contain standard
                operating procedures (SOPs) dealing with equipment operation,
                maintenance, and cleaning, including maintenance of physical
                facilities.
                 It would take approximately 5 hours for each corporate firm to
                establish and maintain procedures for equipment and facility
                maintenance. We estimate that the 3 corporate firms will establish and
                maintain 39 procedures, with a total recordkeeping burden of
                approximately 195 hours.
                 Sections 212.20(c) and 212.40(a) and (b) contain requirements on
                SOPs regarding receiving, testing, and accepting components. We
                estimate that the burden for corporate firms to create procedures for
                acceptance of raw materials and components would be approximately 8
                hours and that there will be approximately three corporate firms
                performing these activities, with a total recordkeeping burden of
                approximately 48 hours. The burden for corporate firms to create
                component specification data sheets would be approximately 2 hours with
                approximately 3 corporate firms performing these activities, with a
                total recordkeeping burden of approximately 150 hours for approximately
                25 component specification sheets for each firm.
                 Sections 212.20(c) and 212.71(a) and (b) require that PET drug
                firms establish procedures for investigating ``deviations'' and ``out
                of specifications failures'' of products during manufacturing and
                testing that do not conform to specifications and to conduct these
                investigations and record them as needed. We estimate that it will take
                approximately 8 hours for three corporate firms to establish one
                procedure, with a total recordkeeping burden of approximately 24 hours.
                 Sections 212.20(c) and 212.90(a) require that written procedures
                regarding distribution of PET drug products be established and
                maintained. We estimate that it will take approximately 8 hours for
                each corporate firm to establish written procedures regarding
                distribution of PET drugs with a total of approximately three records,
                with a total recordkeeping burden of approximately 24 hours.
                 Sections 212.20(c) and 212.100(a), (b), and (c) require that PET
                drug firms establish and maintain written procedures for handling
                complaints and procedures for field alert reports (FARs). We estimate
                that each corporate firm will create three written procedures to
                establish complaints and FARs process and it will take approximately 24
                hours for each corporate firm. A total of 72 hours will be required to
                create 27 procedures by 3 corporate firms.
                B. One-Time Burden for Academia, Small Firms, and Precursors
                 There is a total of 52 sites combined for academic and small
                commercial firms, including some IND and RDRC sites. There are nine
                starting material/precursors/sterile raw material manufacturing
                entities who are required to follow selected regulations from part 212,
                according to the PET drug definition under section 121(a) of FDAMA and
                codified in section 201(ii)(1)(A) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C.
                321(ii)(1)(A)). We will refer to them as high-risk component
                manufacturing firms in the tables and other sections of this document.
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                 It would take approximately 8 hours for each firm to perform the
                same activities as corporate firms regarding creating master batch
                records and manufacturing and quality procedures. We estimate that
                there will be a total of approximately 488 records, with a total
                recordkeeping burden of approximately 3,904 hours.
                 It would take approximately 8 hours for each firm to create
                equipment and facility related procedures as corporate firms. We also
                estimate that there will be a total of approximately 793 records, with
                a total recordkeeping burden of approximately 6,344 hours.
                 We also estimate that the burden for each firm to create and
                maintain specification sheets would be approximately 2 hours and that
                there will be a total of approximately 61 firms performing these
                activities, with a total recordkeeping burden of approximately 3,050
                hours. Furthermore, the burden for these firms to create and maintain
                procedures for acceptance of raw materials and components would be
                approximately 8 hours and that there will be a total of approximately
                61 firms performing these activities, with a total recordkeeping burden
                of approximately 976 hours.
                 It would take approximately 8 hours for each firm to perform the
                same activities as corporate firms. We estimate that there will be a
                total of approximately 61 records, with a total recordkeeping burden of
                approximately 488 hours.
                 We estimate that 61 academia, small firms, and high-risk component
                manufacturers will create about one procedure related to deviations and
                out of specifications and that each firm will expend approximately 8
                hours, for a total of 488 hours. Similarly, 488 hours will be spent for
                procedures on distribution of PET drugs. There will be 3 procedures
                created by each firm related to customer complaints, recalls, and FARs,
                with a total of 156 records from 52 sites and a total of 1,248 hours.
                C. Annual Burden for Corporate Firms
                 In this section, we considered 115 individual corporate sites under
                the 3 major corporations in our estimates. These activities will be
                related to individual PET drugs manufactured at each of the sites
                located across the country. We estimate that it would take 30 minutes
                each to fill 144 batches (approximately 4 batches/month), for a total
                of 8,280 hours. In the second row of table 3, we have also estimated
                that on an annual basis, some new batch records or quality records may
                have to be created for newly introduced or existing drugs. It would
                take each firm approximately 24 hours for three new quality procedure/
                master batch records, with a total recordkeeping burden of
                approximately 216 hours for nine records from three corporate
                organizations.
                 We estimate that 115 individual corporate sites belonging to 3
                major corporate entities will create 164 records for equipment
                maintenance, cleaning, calibration, and facilities maintenance records,
                with a total recordkeeping burden of 9,430 hours.
                 Sections 212.20(c) and 212.40(a) and (b) also set out requirements
                for raw material and component shipments received at the manufacturing
                facility on an ongoing basis. We estimate that the burden for each firm
                to create incoming raw material acceptance records for 2 shipments per
                month and 30 minutes per shipment will be 1,380 hours for 2,760 records
                from 115 sites.
                 Sections 212.60(g), 212.61(b), and 212.70(d)(2) and (3) set out
                requirements for documenting laboratory testing results from each PET
                drug manufactured referred to in laboratory testing, including final
                release testing. Each firm must keep records of different tests for
                each of their products. We estimate that approximately 115 corporate
                sites will document 144 records of cumulative quality control (QC) test
                results (one record with 5 to 6 tests included), with a total
                recordkeeping burden of approximately 8,280 hours.
                 We estimate that each firm will take approximately 1 hour to record
                out-of-specification (OOS) events and perform investigations for each
                incident. We also estimate an average of 2 ``Out of Specification''
                investigations per firm, with a total of 230 records for ``OOS''
                investigations from 115 sites, which results in a burden of 460 hours.
                This estimate includes any reprocessing or special release events,
                which are very rare.
                 Section 212.100(b) and (c) requires that PET drug firms document
                how each complaint is handled. We estimate that this will take
                approximately 2 hours for each site to document and investigate one
                complaint. We estimated 2 complaints per year per site, with a total
                expended hour of 460 hours for 115 individual sites. We believe the
                estimate is appropriate since not all sites receive complaints.
                 We also estimate annual recordkeeping for PET drug firms to perform
                quality assurance (QA) and release of manufactured PET drugs from the
                115 corporate sites to be 4,140 hours, for a total of 144 released
                batches estimating 15 minutes per batch.
                 Section 212.90(b) requires that corporate firms maintain
                distribution records. We estimate that it will take each firm
                approximately 15 minutes to create a distribution record for each batch
                of PET drug products, with a total burden of approximately 4,140 hours
                for 144 released batches from 115 sites.
                D. Annual Burden for Academia and Small Firms
                 It is estimated that each firm will expend the same amount of time
                to perform the same activities as corporate firms. Approximately 52
                academia and small firms will fill 1,248 batch and production records,
                totaling 624 hours. For any new master batch record or quality
                procedures we have estimated 156 total records (3 per site), with a
                total of 1,248 hours.
                 For calibration and cleaning records like filling information in
                log books for each piece of equipment and documenting calibration
                records in each PET production firm, we estimate approximately 30
                minutes on average for each piece of equipment for all firms. The
                calibration efforts are once per year per equipment, with estimated 10
                pieces of equipment per site. We estimate that 52 academic and small
                firms will record a total of 884 hours for 34 records per site and a
                total of 1,768 records.
                 For Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and 212.40(a) and (b), approximately 1,768
                raw material and component acceptance records will be filled on an
                ongoing annual basis. We estimate that the burden for each firm to
                create incoming raw material acceptance records for 12 shipments per
                year and 30 minutes per shipment will be 312 hours for 624 records from
                52 sites.
                 We also estimate that approximately 52 academia and small firms
                will document 1,248 laboratory QC tests for 24 batches of drugs, with a
                total recordkeeping burden of approximately 624 hours.
                 We estimate that each firm will take approximately 1 hour each to
                record OOS and customer complaint events and perform investigations. We
                also estimate that an average of two ``Out of Specification'' and
                customer complaints and investigations per firm, with a total of 208
                hours for each category. This estimate has included any reprocessing or
                special batch release events, which have been rarely observed.
                 We also estimate annual recordkeeping for PET drug firms to perform
                QA and release of manufactured PET drugs from 52 sites to be 312 hours,
                for a total of 24 batches per site released if estimating 15 minutes
                per batch.
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                 Section 212.90(b) requires that corporate firms maintain
                distribution records. We estimate that it will take approximately 15
                minutes to create a distribution record for each batch of PET drug
                products, with a total burden of approximately 312 hours for 24 batches
                per site.
                E. Annual Burden for High-Risk Component Manufacturers
                 According to section 121(a) of FDAMA, the PET drug definition
                includes any non-radioactive or radioactive reagents, kits, nuclidic
                generators, target materials, synthesizers, and so forth. FDA performs
                risk assessments of each manufacturer and inspects such manufacturers.
                Sterile manufacturers and complex labels fall under this category,
                including sterile raw material or reagent manufactures. We have
                estimated nine such facilities based on inspections so far and have
                included them in this section. These manufacturers must comply with
                selected sections of part 212 since they are not final PET drug
                manufacturers. We will refer to them as high-risk component
                manufacturers in general in this document.
                 We estimate that it would take 9 high-risk component manufacturers
                about 30 minutes to fill each manufacturing batch records (12 per year)
                and that there will be a total of approximately 108 records, with a
                total recordkeeping burden of approximately 54 hours.
                 We also estimate that it will take nine component manufacturers 30
                minutes to fill and create equipment and facilities related records,
                with a total recordkeeping burden of 72 hours.
                 We estimate that 9 high-risk component manufacturers will document
                54 components, containers, and closures for incoming acceptance tests,
                with a total recordkeeping burden of approximately 27 hours.
                 We estimate that 9 high-risk component manufacturers will document
                12 QC records related to 12 batches, with a total recordkeeping burden
                of approximately 54 hours.
                 We also estimate annual recordkeeping for PET drug firms to perform
                QA and release manufactured PET drugs from 9 sites to be 27 hours, for
                a total of 108 batches released, estimating 15 minutes per batch.
                 We further estimate that it would take each precursor 15 minutes to
                create and maintain distribution records and that there will be
                approximately 108 records, with a total recordkeeping burden of
                approximately 27 hours.
                III. Process Verification
                 Section 212.50(f)(2) requires that any process verification
                activities and results be recorded. Process verification is usually
                performed as a one-time activity before a product is approved or if any
                major manufacturing process or equipment changes are made. This effort
                to conduct process verification has been estimated under annual new
                creation of master batch records and manufacturing and quality
                procedures in section II of this document.
                IV. Conditional Final Releases
                 Section 212.70(f) requires PET drug producers to document any
                conditional final releases of a product. We believe that conditional
                final releases will be uncommon, and we have them estimated under
                annual ``OOS'' investigations and final QA release efforts for each
                manufactured batch.
                V. Reprocessing Procedures
                 Sections 212.20(c) and 212.71(d) require PET drug producers to
                establish and document procedures for reprocessing PET drugs. We rarely
                see any reprocessing option being submitted for application of such
                drugs and, if reprocessing occurs, we have estimated such rare events
                under annual QA release efforts.
                VI. Third-Party Disclosure Burden
                 Section 212.70(e) requires that PET drug producers notify all
                receiving facilities if a batch fails sterility tests. FDA receives
                FARs reports based on confirmed sterility failures of released PET
                drugs. Based on our experience of such reporting, we estimated a total
                of 12 failures from all 167 sites (corporate, small firms, and
                academia). Therefore, we have estimated that 12 PET drug producers will
                file 2 reports to FDA and send a notification to the affected clinical/
                receiving site per year. PET drug producers would transmit the notice
                by email or Fax and submit the FARs notice to FDA electronically, with
                2.5 hours per incident in total.
                 In the Federal Register of November 30, 2018 (83 FR 61653), FDA
                published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed
                collection of information. Three comments were received and are
                summarized here.
                 One comment questioned the necessity of this proposed collection.
                One comment suggested that FDA allow both paper recordkeeping and
                simplified electronic report submission. Two comments questioned some
                of FDA's burden collection estimates. Two comments questioned whether
                Annual Product Review (APR) is being required by the regulations. Two
                comments pertained to an inadvertent oversight in section VI. Third-
                Party Disclosure.
                 FDA believes that this proposed collection is necessary in keeping
                with the Agency's mission of ensuring the safety and efficacy of human
                drugs. Regarding the estimates included, FDA has taken a generalized
                approach for these estimates, assuming that corporate firms will take
                on certain burdens for all facilities under their purview, rather than
                calculating all burdens per facility, and understanding that due to
                variation among facilities the number of batches and products being
                produced will vary. We have also only included estimates for tasks that
                are included within part 212 and note that some of the comments
                referenced tasks, such as APR, that are outside that scope. Electronic
                recordkeeping is also outside the scope of this regulation. Regarding
                the typographical error in section VI. Third Party Disclosure, on page
                9350, we estimate that it will take PET drug producers 2 hours to
                submit to FDA notices of sterility test failures. We intended to
                estimate 2.5 hours as accurately shown in Table 6, page 9352. In
                section VI of this document, we have included this change. We
                appreciate these comments and will continue to consider the burden
                estimate. If commenters believe certain estimates are insufficient, we
                request comments on specific estimates for these requirements and why
                alternative estimates would be more accurate.
                 The estimated burden of the information collection, therefore, is
                as follows:
                 Table 1--Estimated One-Time Recordkeeping Burden for Corporate Firms \1\
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                 Number of Average
                 Activity/type of respondent/21 Number of records per One-time burden per Total hours
                 CFR section recordkeepers recordkeeper records recordkeeper \2\
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                Batch Production and Control 3 9 27 8 216
                 Records (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c)
                 and (e) and 212.50(a) and (b)).
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                Equipment and Facilities Records 3 13 39 5 195
                 (SOP) (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c),
                 212.30(b) 212.50(d), and
                 212.60(f)).....................
                Records of Components, 3 2 6 8 48
                 Containers, and Closures (SOP)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.40(a) and (b)).............
                Records of Components, 3 25 75 2 150
                 Containers, and Closures
                 (specifications data sheets)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.40(a) and (b)).............
                Out-of-Specification 3 1 3 8 24
                 Investigations (SOP) (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and 212.71(a))
                Distribution Records (SOP) (Sec. 3 1 3 8 24
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.90(a)).....................
                Complaints, Recalls (Sec. Sec. 3 3 9 8 72
                 212.20(c) and 212.100(a)).....
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                 Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 729
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                \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
                 information.
                \2\ Number rounded to the nearest whole number.
                 Table 2--Estimated One-Time Recordkeeping Burden for Academia, Small Firms, and High-Risk Component
                 Manufacturers \1\
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                 Number of Average
                 Activity/type of respondent/21 Number of records per One-time burden per Total hours
                 CFR section recordkeepers recordkeeper records recordkeeper \2\
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                Batch Production and Control 61 8 488 8 3,904
                 Records (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c)
                 and (e) and 212.50(a) and (b)).
                Equipment and Facilities Records 61 13 793 8 6,344
                 (SOP) (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c),
                 212.30(b) 212.50(d), and
                 212.60(f)).....................
                Records of Components, 61 25 1,525 2 3,050
                 Containers, and Closures
                 (specification only) (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and 212.40(a)
                 and (b)).......................
                Records of Components, 61 2 122 8 976
                 Containers, and Closures (SOP)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.40(a) and (b)).............
                Out-of-Specification 61 1 61 8 488
                 Investigations (SOP) (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and 212.71(a))
                Distribution Records (SOP) (Sec. 61 1 61 8 488
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.90(a)).....................
                Complaints, Recalls (Sec. Sec. 52 3 156 8 1,248
                 212.20(c) and 212.100(a)).....
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                 Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 16,498
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                \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
                 information.
                \2\ Number rounded to the nearest whole number.
                 Table 3--Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden for Corporate Firms \1\
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                 Number of Average
                 Activity/21 CFR section Number of records per Total annual burden per Total hours
                 recordkeepers recordkeeper records recordkeeper \2\
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                Batch Production (Creating 115 144 16,560 * 0.50 8,280
                 Manufacturing Records (creating
                 batch-related records per year)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and (e)
                 and 212.50(a) and (b)).........
                Creating Any New Batch Records/ 3 9 27 8 216
                 Quality Records for New or
                 Existing Drugs (Sec. Sec.
                 212.20(c) and (e) and 212.50(a)
                 and (b)).......................
                Equipment and Facilities Records 115 164 18,860 * 0.50 9,430
                 (calibration and cleaning
                 records systems) (Sec. Sec.
                 212.30(b), 212.50(d), and
                 212.60(f)).....................
                Records of Components, 115 24 2,760 * 0.50 1,380
                 Containers, and Closures (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and 212.40(a)
                 and (b)).......................
                Laboratory Testing Records 115 144 16,560 * 0.50 8,280
                 (record laboratory test
                 results) (Sec. Sec.
                 212.60(g), 212.61(b), and
                 212.70(d)(2) and (3))..........
                Out-of-Specification 115 2 230 2 460
                 Investigations (record events
                 and investigations) (Sec.
                 212.71(b)).....................
                Complaints (Sec. Sec. 115 2 230 2 460
                 212.100(b) and (c))............
                QA and Release of Batches....... 115 144 16,560 + 0.25 4,140
                Distribution Records (Sec. 115 144 16,560 + 0.25 4,140
                 212.90(b)).....................
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                 Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 36,786
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                \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
                 information.
                \2\ Number rounded to the nearest whole number.
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                * (30 minutes).
                + (15 minutes).
                 Table 4--Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden for Academia and Small Firms \1\
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                 Number of Average
                 Activity/21 CFR section Number of records per Total annual burden per Total hours
                 recordkeepers recordkeeper records recordkeeper \2\
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                Batch Production (creating 52 24 1,248 * 0.50 624
                 manufacturing records) (filling
                 batch related records per year)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and (e)
                 and 212.50(a) and (b)).........
                Creating Any New Batch Records/ 52 3 156 8 1,248
                 Procedures for New Drugs (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and (e) and
                 212.50(a) and (b)).............
                Equipment and Facilities Records 52 34 1,768 * 0.50 884
                 (calibration and cleaning
                 records) (Sec. Sec.
                 212.30(b), 212.50(d), and
                 212.60(f)).....................
                Records of Components, 52 12 624 * 0.50 312
                 Containers, and Closures
                 (incoming acceptance tests)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.40(a) and (b)).............
                Laboratory Testing Records (QC 52 24 1,248 * 0.50 624
                 test results) (Sec. Sec.
                 212.60(g), 212.61(b) and
                 212.70(d)(2) and (3))..........
                Out-of-Specification 52 2 104 2 208
                 Investigations (record events
                 and investigations) (Sec.
                 212.71(b)).....................
                Complaints (Record events and 52 2 104 2 208
                 investigations) (Sec. Sec.
                 212.100(b) and (c))............
                QA and Release of Batches....... 52 24 1,248 + 0.25 312
                Distribution Records (Sec. 52 24 1,248 + 0.25 312
                 212.90(b)).....................
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                 Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 4,732
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                \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
                 information.
                \2\ Number rounded to the nearest whole number.
                * (30 minutes).
                + (15 minutes).
                 Table 5--Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden for High Risk Component Manufacturers \1\
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                 Number of Average
                 Activity/21 CFR section Number of records per Total annual burden per Total hours
                 recordkeepers recordkeeper records recordkeeper \2\
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                Batch Production (creating 9 12 108 * 0.50 54
                 manufacturing records and batch
                 related records per year) (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.20(c) and (e) and
                 212.50(a) and (b)).............
                Equipment and Facilities Records 9 16 144 * 0.50 72
                 (calibration and cleaning
                 records systems) (Sec. Sec.
                 212.30(b), 212.50(d), and
                 212.60(f)).....................
                Records of Components, 9 6 54 * 0.50 27
                 Containers, and Closures
                 (incoming acceptance test)
                 (Sec. Sec. 212.20(c) and
                 212.40(a) and (b)).............
                Laboratory Testing Records 9 12 108 * 0.50 54
                 (record QC test results) (Sec.
                 Sec. 212.60(g), 212.61(b) and
                 212.70(d)(2) and (3))..........
                Out-of-Specification 9 1 9 1 9
                 Investigations (Record events
                 and investigations) (Sec.
                 212.71(b)).....................
                QA and Release of Batches....... 9 12 108 + 0.25 27
                Distribution Records (Sec. 9 12 108 + 0.25 27
                 212.90(b)).....................
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                 Total....................... .............. .............. .............. .............. 270
                ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
                 information.
                \2\ Number rounded to the nearest whole number.
                * (30 minutes).
                + (15 minutes).
                 Table 6--Estimated Annual Third-Party Disclosure Burden \1\
                ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 Number of Number of
                 sterility disclosures Total annual Average
                 Activity/21 CFR section failure per disclosures burden per Total hours
                 incidents respondent disclosure
                ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                Sterility Test Failure Notices 12 \2\ 3 36 2.5 90
                 (Sec. 212.70(e)).............
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                \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
                 information.
                \2\ There are two reports sent to FDA per incident and notification to receiving site.
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                 These burden estimates reflect adjustments since last OMB approval.
                Previously we had based the estimated number of respondents on the
                number of individual production sites, however we believe using the
                number of registered organizations better reflects the burden
                attributable to information collection. This results in an overall
                decrease to the collection.
                 Dated: August 26, 2019.
                Lowell J. Schiller,
                Principal Associate Commissioner for Policy.
                [FR Doc. 2019-19030 Filed 9-3-19; 8:45 am]
                 BILLING CODE 4164-01-P
                

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