98-24498. Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Notification of a Health Claim or a Nutrient Content Claim Based on an Authoritative Statement; Correction

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 177 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 49130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24498]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 98D-0389]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request; Notification of a Health Claim or a Nutrient Content 
Claim Based on an Authoritative Statement; Correction

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is correcting a notice 
that appeared in the Federal Register of August 13, 1998 (63 FR 43400). 
The document announced an opportunity for public comment on a proposed 
collection of information; specifically, comments on the submission of 
notifications of health claims or nutrient content claims based on 
authoritative statements of scientific bodies. The notice published 
with two errors. This document corrects those errors.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret R. Schlosburg, Office of 
Information Resources Management (HFA-250), Food and Drug 
Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-1223.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Doc. 98-21796, appearing on page 43400 
in the Federal Register of Thursday, August 13, 1998, the following 
corrections are made:
    1. On page 43400, in the third column, in the sixth line from the 
bottom ``0910-0347--Extension)'' is corrected to read ``0910-0374--
Extension)''.
    2. On page 43401, in the first column, beginning in the fourth 
line, ``of a scientific body of the Federal Government or the National 
Academy of Sciences. Under these sections of the act, a food producer 
that intends to use such a claim must submit a notification of its 
intention to use the claim 120 days before it begins marketing'' is 
corrected to read ``of certain scientific bodies of the Federal 
Government or of the National Academy of Sciences or any of its 
subdivisions. Under these sections of the act, a food producer may use 
such a claim in the labeling of an appropriate product 120 days after a 
complete notification of the claim is submitted to FDA.''

    Dated: September 2, 1998.
William K. Hubbard,
Associate Commissioner for Policy Coordination.
[FR Doc. 98-24498 Filed 9-11-98; 8:45 am]
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