Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff; Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Absorbable Hemostatic Device; Availability; Reopening of Comment Period

Résumé

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reopening until October 14, 2008, the comment period for a draft guidance entitled "Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Absorbable Hemostatic Device." The draft guidance describes a means by which the absorbable hemostatic device may comply with the requirements of special controls if it is reclassified. FDA is reopening the comment period to update comments and to receive any new information. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, FDA is reopening the comment period on a proposed rule to reclassify the absorbable hemostatic device from class III (premarket approval) into class II (special controls).