[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 154 (Friday, August 10, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 45051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15682]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and 
Availability

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the 
Secretary.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services is hereby giving notice that 
the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA) will 
hold a meeting. The meeting will be open to the public on both 
Wednesday, August 22 and Thursday, August 23, 2007.

DATES: The meeting will take place Wednesday, August 22, 2007 and 
Thursday, August 23, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Georgetown University Conference Center, 3800 Reservoir 
Road, NW., Washington, DC 20057

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry A. Holmberg, PhD, Executive 
Secretary, Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability, Office 
of Public Health and Science, Department of Health and Human Services, 
1101 Wootton Parkway, Room 250, Rockville, MD 20852, (240) 453-8803, 
fax (240) 453-8456, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ACBSA will discuss ethical 
considerations and risk benefits for ensuring transfusion and 
transplantation safety during focal periods of shortages. In addition 
the Committee will review and discuss the elasticity of the blood 
supply to support transfusion and transplantation safety as well as 
strategies and barriers to those strategies.
    Public comment will be solicited on both August 22 and 23, 2007. 
Comments will be limited to five minutes per speaker. Anyone planning 
to comment is encouraged to contact the Executive Secretary at his/her 
earliest convenience. Those who wish to have printed material 
distributed to Advisory Committee members should submit thirty (30) 
copies to the Executive Secretary prior to close of business August 17, 
2007. Likewise, those who wish to utilize electronic data projection to 
the Committee must submit their materials to the Executive Secretary 
prior to close of business August 17, 2007.

    Dated: July 26, 2007.
Richard A. Henry,
Deputy Executive Secretary, Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and 
Availability.
 [FR Doc. E7-15682 Filed 8-9-07; 8:45 am]
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