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Event Title
UPDATED INFORMATION: April 12, 2023: Meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting Announcement
April 12, 2023

Date:
April 12, 2023
Time:
8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET

What is an advisory committee?

Advisory committees provide independent expert advice to the FDA on broad scientific topics or on certain products to help the agency make sound decisions based on the available science. Advisory committees make non-binding recommendations to the FDA, which generally follows the recommendations but is not legally bound to do so. Please see, "Advisory Committees Give FDA Critical Advice and the Public a Voice," for more information.

UPDATED INFORMATION (as of March 21, 2023):

The meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee scheduled for April 12, 2023, is postponed to a later date.

ORIGINAL INFORMATION:

What is an advisory committee?

Advisory committees provide independent expert advice to the FDA on broad scientific topics or on certain products to help the agency make sound decisions based on the available science. Advisory committees make non-binding recommendations to the FDA, which generally follows the recommendations but is not legally bound to do so. Please see, "Advisory Committees Give FDA Critical Advice and the Public a Voice", for more information.

Center: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Location: Please note that due to the impact of this COVID-19 pandemic, all meeting participants will be joining this advisory committee meeting via an online teleconferencing platform.

Agenda

The meeting presentations will be heard, viewed, captioned, and recorded through an online teleconferencing platform. The committee will discuss the adequacy of efficacy data available for oral phenylephrine as a nasal decongestant and whether oral nasal decongestants phenylephrine hydrochloride and phenylephrine bitartrate should be reclassified as not ‘Generally Recognized as Safe and Effective’ (GRASE) due to lack of efficacy.

Meeting Materials

FDA intends to make background material and the link to the live webcast available to the public no later than two (2) business days before the meeting in the Event Materials section of this web page. If FDA is unable to post the background material on its website prior to the meeting, the background material will be made publicly available on FDA’s website at the time of the advisory committee meeting. The meeting will include slide presentations with audio components to allow the presentation of materials in a manner that most closely resembles an in-person advisory committee meeting.

Public Participation Information

Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.

FDA intends to publish a Federal Register notice and establish a docket for public comment on this meeting by April 2023. More information regarding the docket will be available once the Federal Register notice for this meeting publishes.

Those individuals interested in making formal oral presentations during the open public hearing session of the meeting should follow the instructions in the Federal Register Notice when it publishes.

Webcast Information

CDER plans to provide a free of charge, live webcast of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee. If there are instances where the webcast transmission is not successful, staff will work to re-establish the transmission as soon as possible. Further information regarding the webcast, including the web address for the webcast, will be made available no later than two (2) business days before the meeting in the Event Materials section of this web page.

CDER plans to post archived webcasts after the meeting, however, in cases where transmission was not successful, archived webcasts will not be available.

Contact Information

  • LaToya Bonner, PharmD
    Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
    Food and Drug Administration
    10903 New Hampshire Avenue
    WO31-2417
    Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002

    Phone: 301-796-2894
    Email: NDAC@fda.hhs.gov
  • FDA Advisory Committee Information Line
    1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington DC area)
    Please call the Information Line for up-to-date information on this meeting.
  • For press inquiries, please contact the Office of Media Affairs at fdaoma@fda.hhs.gov or 301–796–4540.

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 website or call the committee’s Designated Federal Officer (see Contact Information) to learn about possible modifications before coming to the meeting.

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Answers to commonly asked questions including information regarding special accommodations due to a disability may be accessed at: Common Questions and Answers about FDA Advisory Committee Meetings.

FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee meetings. Please visit our Web site at Public Conduct During FDA Advisory Committee Meetings 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).

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