U.S. flag An official website of the United States government

On Oct. 1, 2024, the FDA began implementing a reorganization impacting many parts of the agency. We are in the process of updating FDA.gov content to reflect these changes.

  1. Home
  2. Regulatory Information
  3. Search for FDA Guidance Documents
  4. Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Modifications and Revisions Guidance for Industry
  1. Search for FDA Guidance Documents

GUIDANCE DOCUMENT

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Modifications and Revisions Guidance for Industry July 2019

Final Level 2 Guidance
Docket Number:
FDA-2014-D-1747
Issued by:
Guidance Issuing Office
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

[Updated June 29, 2020]

This guidance provides information on how the FDA defines the types of changes to approved risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS), how application holders should submit changes to an approved REMS, and how the FDA will process submissions from application holders for changes to REMS. Specifically, this guidance provides information, as described in section 505-1(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), on what types of changes to REMS will be considered modifications of the REMS and what types of changes will be considered revisions of the REMS (changes that may be implemented following notification to the FDA). This guidance is issued pursuant to section 505-1(h)(2)(A)(ii), (iii), and (iv) of the FD&C Act and section 1132(c) of Public Law 112-144.


Submit Comments

You can submit online or written comments on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR 10.115(g)(5))

If unable to submit comments online, please mail written comments to:

Dockets Management
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane, Rm 1061
Rockville, MD 20852

All written comments should be identified with this document's docket number: FDA-2014-D-1747.

Back to Top