[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR20.108]
[Page 214-215]
TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES
PART 20 PUBLIC INFORMATION--Table of Contents
Subpart F Availability of Specific Categories of Records
Sec. 20.108 Agreements between the Food and Drug Administration and other
departments, agencies, and organizations.
(a) All written agreements and understandings signed by the Food and
Drug Administration and other departments, agencies, and organizations
are available for public disclosure.
(b) A permanent file of all such agreements and understandings is
available for public review during working hours in the Food and Drug
Administration's Freedom of Information Public Room.
(c) All such agreements and understandings shall be published in the
Federal Register, except those agreements and memoranda of understanding
between FDA and State or local government agencies that are cooperative
work-sharing agreements. In lieu of publication of the complete text of
these agreements and understandings, FDA will publish in the Federal
Register periodically, but not less than once every 2 years, a notice
listing all such agreements and memoranda of understanding currently in
effect between FDA and State or local government agencies.
(d) Agreements and understandings signed by officials of FDA with
respect to activities of the Office of Criminal Investigations are
exempt from the requirements set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this
section. Although such agreements and understandings will not be put on
display in FDA's Freedom of Information Public Room or published in the
Federal Register, these agreements will be available for disclosure in
response to a request from the public after deletion of information that
would disclose confidential investigative techniques or procedures, or
information that would disclose guidelines for law enforcement
investigations if such disclosure could
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reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.
[42 FR 15616, Mar. 22, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 8457, Jan. 27, 1981; 58
FR 48794, 48796, Sept. 20, 1993]
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