[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 147 (Wednesday, July 31, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61457-61459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16832]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2024-N-3029]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is 
announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection 
of certain information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA), Federal Agencies are required to publish notice in the 
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, 
including each proposed reinstatement of an existing collection of 
information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the 
notice. This notice solicits comments on a collection of information 
used to conduct a voluntary consumer survey entitled, ``FDA Food Safety 
and Nutrition Survey.''

DATES: Either electronic or written comments on the collection of 
information must be submitted by September 30, 2024.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late, 
untimely filed comments will not be considered. The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept comments until 
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of September 30, 2024. Comments 
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions) 
will be considered timely if they are received on or before that date.

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-N-3029 for ``Agency Information Collection Activities; 
Proposed Collection; Comment Request; FDA Food Safety and Nutrition 
Survey.'' Received comments, those filed in a timely manner (see 
ADDRESSES), 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

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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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: JonnaLynn Capezzuto, Office of 
Operations, Food and Drug Administration, Three White Flint North, 10A-
12M, 11601 Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD 20852, 301-796-5733, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521), Federal 
Agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. 
``Collection of information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 
1320.3(c) and includes Agency requests or requirements that members of 
the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a 
third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) 
requires Federal Agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal 
Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including 
each proposed reinstatement of an existing collection of information, 
before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with 
this requirement, FDA is publishing notice of the proposed collection 
of information set forth in this document.
    With respect to the following collection of information, FDA 
invites comments on these topics: (1) whether the proposed collection 
of information is necessary for the proper performance of FDA's 
functions, including whether the information will have practical 
utility; (2) the accuracy of FDA's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways 
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques, when 
appropriate, and other forms of information technology.

Food Safety and Nutrition Survey

OMB Control Number 0910-0345--Reinstatement

    Under section 1003(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act (21 U.S.C. 393(b)(2)), we are authorized to conduct research 
relating to foods and to conduct educational and public information 
programs relating to the safety of the nation's food supply. In the 
past, FDA has conducted two separate surveys, a Food Safety Survey and 
a Health and Diet Survey, to measure consumers' knowledge, attitudes, 
and beliefs about food safety and nutrition issues. These surveys have 
been conducted every 3 to 5 years since the 1980s. In the Federal 
Register of August 14, 2018 (83 FR 40293), we announced the combination 
of these two surveys, which will now be the FDA Food Safety and 
Nutrition Survey (FSANS). Data from FDA's food safety and nutrition 
surveys have been used to support rulemaking and educational campaigns 
and to measure progress toward Healthy People 2010, 2020, and 2030 food 
safety goals. The proposed 2024 FSANS will contain many of the same 
questions and topics as the previous surveys to facilitate measuring 
trends in food safety and diet knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors over 
time. The proposed survey will also be updated to explore emerging 
consumer food safety and nutrition topics and to expand understanding 
of previously asked topics.
    The 2024 FSANS will be both a paper-and-pencil and web-based 
survey. Respondents will be contacted by postal mail, using an 
addressed-based sampling frame. Once contacted, respondents will be 
encouraged to take the survey online. A paper-and-pencil version of the 
survey will be mailed to those who do not initially take the web-based 
version of the survey. One randomly selected adult from each sampled 
household will be invited to participate in the survey using the Hagen-
Collier method.\1\ A total of 5,000 respondents will be surveyed. We 
will sample approximately 25,000 households to offset nonresponding 
households and ineligible addresses and achieve 5,000 adult 
respondents. Participation in the survey will be voluntary. Cognitive 
interviews and a pre-test will be conducted prior to fielding the 
survey.
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    \1\ In this method, we randomly select a category based on 
gender and age (based on the gender-age composition of the 
household), and then take the adult in that selected category.
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    Description of Respondents: Respondents to this collection of 
information are individuals who are adults, age 18 and older, drawn 
from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
    FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as 
follows:

                                 Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden \1\
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                                                  Number of
           Activity               Number of     responses per    Total annual    Average burden     Total hours
                                 respondents      respondent       responses      per response
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Cognitive interview screener.              75                1              75  0.083 (5                       6
                                                                                 minutes).
Cognitive interview..........              18                1              18  1...............              18
Pretest......................             100                1             100  0.33 (20                      33
                                                                                 minutes).
Mail survey..................           5,000                1           5,000  0.33 (20                   1,650
                                                                                 minutes).
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    Total....................  ..............  ...............           5,193  ................           1,707
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\1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of
  information.

    FDA's burden estimate is based on the Agency's prior experience 
with food safety and nutrition surveys. We will use a cognitive 
interview screener with 75 individuals to recruit prospective interview 
participants for a total of 18

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individuals. We estimate that it will take each screener respondent 
approximately 5 minutes (0.083 hours) to complete the cognitive 
interview screener, for a total of 6 hours. We will conduct cognitive 
interviews with 18 participants. We estimate that it will take each 
participant approximately 1 hour to complete the interview, for a total 
of 18 hours. Prior to the administration of the surveys, the Agency 
plans to conduct a pretest to identify and resolve potential survey 
administration problems. The pretest will be conducted with 100 
participants; we estimate that it will take each participant 20 minutes 
(0.33 hours) for the pretest for a total of 33 hours. We estimate that 
5,000 eligible adults will participate in the survey with each taking 
20 minutes (0.33 hours), for a total of 1,650 hours. Thus, the total 
estimated burden is 1,707 hours.

    Dated: July 26, 2024.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2024-16832 Filed 7-30-24; 8:45 am]
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