Draft Guidance for Industry on Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco Products; Availability

Federal Register: November 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 211)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

Docket No. FDA-2009-D-0524

Draft Guidance for Industry on Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco

Products; Availability

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ``Listing of

Ingredients in Tobacco Products.'' The draft guidance document is intended to assist persons making tobacco product ingredient submissions to FDA as required by section 904 of the Federal Food,

Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) as added by the Family Smoking

Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act).

DATES: Although you can comment on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR 10.115(g)(5)), to ensure that the agency considers your comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final version of the guidance, submit written or electronic comments on the draft guidance by November 13, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for single copies of the draft guidance document entitled ``Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco

Products'' to the Center for Tobacco Products, Food and Drug

Administration, 9200 Corporate Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850-3229. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your request or include a fax number to which the draft guidance document may be sent.

Submit electronic comments to http://www.regulations.gov. Submit written comments on the guidance to the Division of Dockets Management

(HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061,

Rockville, MD 20852. Identify comments with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for electronic access to the guidance document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michele Mital, Center for Tobacco

Products, Food and Drug Administration, 9200 Corporate Blvd.,

Rockville, MD 20850-3229, 301-796-4800, Michele.Mital@fda.hhs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. Background

   On June 22, 2009, the President signed the Tobacco Control act

   (Public Law 111-31) into law. The Tobacco Control Act amended the

   Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) by, among other things, adding a new chapter granting FDA important new authority to regulate the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public health generally and to reduce tobacco use by minors.

   Section 904(a)(1) of the act, as amended by the Tobacco Control

   Act, requires each tobacco product manufacturer or importer, or agent thereof, to submit ``a listing of all ingredients, including tobacco, substances, compounds, and additives that are * * * added by the manufacturer to the tobacco, paper, filter, or other part of each tobacco product by brand and by quantity in each brand and subbrand.''

   Since the Tobacco Control act was enacted on June 22, 2009, the information required under section 904(a)(1) must be submitted to FDA by December 22, 2009, and include the ingredients added as of the date of submission. While electronic submission of ingredient listing information is not required, FDA is strongly encouraging electronic submission to facilitate efficiency and timeliness of data management and collection. To that end, FDA designed the eSubmitter application to streamline the data entry process for ingredient listing. This tool allows for importation of large quantities of structured data, attachments of files (e.g., in portable document format (PDFs) and certain media files), and automatic acknowledgement of FDA's receipt of submissions.

2. Significance of Guidance

   FDA is issuing this draft guidance document consistent with FDA's good guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the agency's current thinking on

   ``Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco Products.'' It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used if such approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statute and regulations.

3. Comments

   Interested persons may submit to the Division of Dockets Management

   (see ADDRESSES) written or electronic comments regarding this document.

   Submit a single copy of electronic comments or two paper copies of any mailed comments, except that individuals may submit one paper copy.

   Comments are to be identified with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. The guidance

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   document and received comments may be seen in the Division of Dockets

   Management between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

4. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

   This draft guidance contains proposed collections of information that are subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520).

   As required by the PRA, FDA has published an analysis of the information collection concerning the submission of ingredient information (74 FR 45219, September 1, 2009, as corrected by 74 FR 47257, September 15, 2009) and will submit it for OMB approval.

5. Electronic Access

   An electronic version of the guidance document is available on the

   Internet at http://www.regulations.gov and http://www.fda.gov/

   TobaccoProducts/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/default.htm

   Dated: October 29, 2009.

   David Horowitz,

   Assistant Commissioner for Policy.

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