[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 51 (Thursday, March 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18644-18646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05381]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2024-D-0803]


E2D(R1) Post-Approval Safety Data: Definitions and Standards for 
Management and Reporting of Individual Case Safety Reports; 
International Council for Harmonisation; Draft Guidance for Industry; 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the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ``E2D(R1) 
Post-Approval Safety Data: Definitions and Standards for Management and 
Reporting of Individual Case Safety Reports.'' The draft guidance was 
prepared under the auspices of the International Council for 
Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human 
Use (ICH). The draft guidance updates the existing E2D guidance 
entitled ``E2D Post-Approval Safety Data Management: Definitions and 
Standards for Expedited Reporting,'' published in 2003. The draft 
guidance is intended is to clarify the use of new or increasingly used 
data sources (e.g., social media, market research programs, patient 
support programs) and update terminology and

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standards for postmarket adverse event reporting.

DATES: Submit either electronic or written comments on the draft 
guidance by May 13, 2024, to ensure that the Agency considers your 
comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final 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-2024-D-0803 for ``E2D(R1) Post-Approval Safety Data: Definitions 
and Standards for Management and Reporting of Individual Case Safety 
Reports.'' 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 
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 the draft 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, 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 
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at 1-800-835-4709 or 240-
402-8010. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic 
access to the draft guidance document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    Regarding the guidance: Robert Ball, Center for Drug Evaluation and 
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 
22, Rm. 4300, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-2000, 
[email protected]; or James Myers, Center for Biologics 
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New 
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 7301, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 240-
402-7911.
    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 ``Post-Approval Safety Data: Definitions and Standards for 
Management and Reporting of Individual Case Safety Reports.'' The draft 
guidance was prepared under the auspices of ICH. ICH seeks to achieve 
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 enhance global drug development, improve 
manufacturing standards, and increase the availability of medications. 
For example, ICH guidelines have substantially reduced duplicative 
clinical studies, prevented unnecessary animal studies, standardized 
the reporting of important safety information, and standardized 
marketing application submissions.
    The six Founding Members of the ICH are 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. ICH membership 
continues to expand to

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include other regulatory authorities and industry associations from 
around the world (refer to https://www.ich.org).
    ICH works by engaging global regulatory and industry experts in a 
detailed, science-based, and 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.
    On February 7, 2024, the ICH Assembly endorsed the draft guideline 
entitled ``E2D(R1) Post-Approval Safety Data: Definitions and Standards 
for Management and Reporting of Individual Case Safety Reports'' and 
agreed that the guideline should be made available for public comment. 
The draft guideline is the product of the Efficacy Expert Working Group 
of the ICH. Comments about this draft will be considered by FDA and the 
Efficacy Expert Working Group.
    The draft guidance aims to improve the quality of postapproval 
safety information by revising the 2003 guidance entitled ``E2D Post-
Approval Safety Data Management: Definitions and Standards for 
Expedited Reporting,'' which introduced an internationally standardized 
procedure for gathering and reporting postapproval safety data. 
Building on the standardized recommendations from the 2003 guidance, 
this draft guidance aims to clarify the use of new or more frequently 
applied postapproval safety sources and update terminology and 
standards for postmarket adverse event reporting.
    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 ``E2D(R1) Post-Approval Safety Data: 
Definitions and Standards for Management and Reporting of Individual 
Case Safety Reports.'' 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

    While this guidance contains no collection of information, it does 
refer to previously approved FDA collections of information. The 
previously approved collections of information are subject to review by 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521). The collections of information 
pertaining to postmarketing adverse drug experience reporting have been 
approved under OMB control number 0910-0230. The collection of 
information for FDA adverse event reporting and electronic submissions 
using the Electronic Submission Gateway and the Safety Reporting Portal 
has been approved under OMB control number 0910-0291. The collections 
of information pertaining to the issuance of ``Dear Health Care 
Provider Letters: Improving Communication of Important Safety 
Information'' have been approved under OMB control number 0910-0754.

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, 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.

    Dated: March 8, 2024.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2024-05381 Filed 3-13-24; 8:45 am]
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