[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 166 (Monday, August 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52801-52803]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18521]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2022-D-1527]
M12 Drug Interaction Studies; International Council for
Harmonisation; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing
the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ``M12 Drug
Interaction Studies.'' The draft guidance was prepared under the
auspices of the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH), formerly
the International Conference on Harmonisation. The draft guidance
provides general recommendations on how to evaluate the pharmacokinetic
drug interaction potential mediated via enzyme and transporter for
investigational drugs. The draft guidance harmonizes the regional
requirements on in vitro and clinical evaluation of drug-drug
interactions for a more consistent approach in design, conduct, and
interpretation of enzyme and transporter-mediated interaction during
the development of an investigational drug. The draft guidance is
intended to decrease the risk of adverse events, sometimes leading to
hospital admissions or reduced treatment efficacy.
DATES: Submit either electronic or written comments on the draft
guidance by September 28, 2022 to ensure that the Agency considers your
comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final
version of the guidance.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on any guidance at any time as
follows:
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information,
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
If you want to submit a comment with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified,
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2022-D-1527 for ``M12 Drug Interaction Studies.'' Received comments
will be placed in the docket and, except for those submitted as
``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Dockets Management Staff between 9 a.m.
and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 240-402-7500.
Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' The Agency will
review this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in
its consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the
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claimed confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be
available for public viewing and posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
Submit both copies to the Dockets Management Staff. If you do not wish
your name and contact information to be made publicly available, you
can provide this information on the cover sheet and not in the body of
your comments and you must identify this information as
``confidential.'' Any information marked as ``confidential'' will not
be disclosed except in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20 and other
applicable disclosure law. For more information about FDA's posting of
comments to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or
access the information at: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.
You may submit comments on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR
10.115(g)(5)).
Submit written requests for single copies of this guidance to the
Division of Drug Information, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research,
Food and Drug Administration, 10001 New Hampshire Ave., Hillandale
Building, 4th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, or the Office of
Communication, Outreach and Development, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 3128, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002. Send
one self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing
your requests. The guidance may also be obtained by mail by calling
CBER at 1-800-835-4709 or 240-402-8010. See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section for electronic access to the guidance document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Regarding the guidance: Kellie
Reynolds, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug
Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 51, Rm. 2134, Silver
Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-1594, [email protected].
Regarding the ICH: Jill Adleberg, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg.
51, Rm. 6364, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-5259,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
FDA is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry
entitled ``M12 Drug Interaction Studies.'' The draft guidance was
prepared under the auspices of ICH. ICH has the mission of achieving
greater regulatory harmonization worldwide to ensure that safe,
effective, high-quality medicines are developed, registered, and
maintained in the most resource-efficient manner.
By harmonizing the regulatory requirements in regions around the
world, ICH guidelines have substantially reduced duplicative clinical
studies, prevented unnecessary animal studies, standardized the
reporting of important safety information, standardized marketing
application submissions, and made many other improvements in the
quality of global drug development and manufacturing and the products
available to patients.
The six Founding Members of the ICH are the FDA; the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America; the European Commission; the
European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Associations; the
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare; and the Japanese
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. The Standing Members of the
ICH Association include Health Canada and Swissmedic. Additionally, the
Membership of ICH has expanded to include other regulatory authorities
and industry associations from around the world (refer to https://www.ich.org/).
ICH works by involving technical experts from both regulators and
industry parties in detailed technical harmonization work and the
application of a science-based approach to harmonization through a
consensus-driven process that results in the development of ICH
guidelines. The regulators around the world are committed to
consistently adopting these consensus-based guidelines, realizing the
benefits for patients and for industry.
As a Founding Regulatory Member of ICH, FDA plays a major role in
the development of each of the ICH guidelines, which FDA then adopts
and issues as guidance for industry. FDA's guidance documents do not
establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, they describe
the Agency's current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as
recommendations, unless specific regulatory or statutory requirements
are cited.
In May 2022, the ICH Assembly endorsed the draft guideline entitled
``M12 Drug Interaction Studies'' and agreed that the guideline should
be made available for public comment. The draft guideline is the
product of the Multidisciplinary Expert Working Group of the ICH.
Comments about this draft will be considered by FDA and the
Multidisciplinary Expert Working Group.
The draft guidance provides general recommendations on how to
evaluate the pharmacokinetic drug interaction potential mediated via
enzyme and transporter for investigational drugs. The draft guideline
harmonizes the regional requirements on in vitro and clinical
evaluation of drug-drug interactions for a more consistent approach in
design, conduct, and interpretation of enzyme and transporter-mediated
interaction during the development of an investigational drug. It is
intended to decrease the risk of adverse events, sometimes leading to
hospital admissions or reduced treatment efficacy.
This draft guidance has been left in the original ICH format. The
final guidance will be reformatted and edited to conform with FDA's
good guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115) and style before
publication. The draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the
current thinking of FDA on ``M12 Drug Interaction Studies.'' It does
not establish any rights for any person and is not binding on FDA or
the public. You can use an alternative approach if it satisfies the
requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations.
II. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
FDA tentatively concludes that this draft guidance contains no
collection of information. Therefore, clearance by the Office of
Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 is not
required.
III. Electronic Access
Persons with access to the internet may obtain the draft guidance
at https://www.regulations.gov, https://www.fda.gov/drugs/guidance-compliance-regulatory-information/guidances-drugs, or https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/guidance-compliance-regulatory-information-biologics/biologics-guidances, or https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents.
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Dated: August 22, 2022.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2022-18521 Filed 8-26-22; 8:45 am]
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