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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
Advisory Committee on Special Studies Relating to the Possible
Long-Term Health Effects of Phenoxy Herbicides and Contaminants (Ranch
Hand Advisory Committee); Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will
be open to the public.
Name of Committee: Advisory Committee on Special Studies Relating
to the Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Phenoxy Herbicides and
Contaminants (Ranch Hand Advisory Committee).
General Function of the Committee: To advise the Secretary and the
Assistant Secretary for Health concerning its oversight of the conduct
of the Ranch Hand study by the U.S. Air Force and provide scientific
oversight of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Army Chemical
Corps Vietnam Veterans Health Study, and other studies in which the
Secretary or the Assistant Secretary for Health believes involvement by
the committee is desirable.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on November 14, 2001, from
1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and November 15, 2001, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn Select, 8120 Wisconsin Ave., Maryland Room,
Bethesda, MD.
Contact: Leonard Schechtman, National Center for Toxicology
Research (HFT-10), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-6696, or FDA Advisory Committee
Information Line, 1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC
area), code 12560. Please call the Information Line for up-to-date
information on this meeting.
Agenda: The U.S. Air Force will present information on: Data
release; cancer incidence; area under the curve; matched diabetes
graphs; memory loss and peripheral neuropathy; thyroid abnormalities;
and Seveso and Ranch Hand TCDD Half-Life. The Veterans Administration
will provide an update on: The VA Army Chemical Corps Vietnam-Era
Health Study including status of recruitment, interviewing, and medical
record retrieval; documentation of self-reported health outcomes;
results of serum dioxin analysis; and preliminary results of survey
data analysis.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
Written submissions may be made to the contact person by November 2,
2001. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled on November
15, 2001, between approximately 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Time allotted for each
presentation may be limited. Those desiring to make formal oral
presentations should notify the contact person before November 2, 2001,
and submit a brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or
arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed
participants, and an indication of the approximate time requested to
make their presentation.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: October 4, 2001.
Linda A. Suydam,
Senior Associate Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 01-25919 Filed 10-15-01; 8:45 am]
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