10 Guam Code Ann. § 40117
Terms Used In 10 Guam Code Ann. § 40117
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
approved and said approval has not been withdrawn under ‘505 of the
Federal Act, or (2) when not subject to the Federal Act, unless such drug has
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been tested and has been found to be safe for use and effective in use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the labeling thereof, and prior to selling or offering for sale such drug, there has been filed with the Director an application setting forth (i) full reports of investigations which have been made to show whether or not such drug is safe for use and whether such drug is effective in use; (ii) a full list of the articles used as components of such drug; (iii) a full statement of the com- position of such drug; (iv) a full description of the methods used in, and the facilities and controls used for the manufacturer, processing and packing of such drug; (v) such samples of such drug and of the articles used as compo- nents thereof as the Director may require; and (vi) specimens of the labeling proposed to be used for such drug.
(b) An application provided for in Subsection (a)(2) shall become effective on the one hundred eightieth day after the filing thereof, except that if the Director finds, after due notice to the applicant and giving him an opportunity for a hearing (1) that the drug is not safe or not effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the proposed labeling thereof; or (2) the methods used in and the facilities and controls used for the manufacturer, processing and packing of such drugs are inadequate to preserve its identity, strength, quality and purity; or (3) based on a fair evaluation of all material facts, such labeling is false or misleading in any particular; he shall, prior to the effective date of the application issue an order refusing to permit the application to become effective.
(c) Vacant.
(d) The Director shall promulgate regulations for exempting from the operation of the foregoing Subsections of this Section drugs intended solely for investigational use by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to investigate the safety and effectiveness of drugs. Such regulations may, within the discretion of the Director among other conditions relating to the protection of the public health, provide for conditioning such exemption upon:
(1) the submission to the Director, before any clinical testing of a new drug is undertaken, of reports by the manufacturer or the sponsor of the investigation of such drug, of pre-clinical tests (including tests on animals) of such drug adequate to justify the proposed clinical testing;
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(2) the manufacturer or the sponsor of the investigation of a new drug proposed to be distributed to investigators for clinical testing obtaining a signed agreement from each of such investigators that patients to whom the drug is administered will be under his personal supervision, or under the supervision of investigators responsible to him and that he will not supply such drug to any other investigator or to clinics for administration to human beings; and
(3) the establishment and maintenances of such records and the making of such reports to the Director by the manufacturer or the sponsor of the investigation of such drug of data (including but not limited to analytical reports by investigators) obtained as the result of such investigational use of such drug, as the Director finds will enable him to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of such drug in the event of the filing of an application pursuant to Subsection (b).
Such regulations shall provide that such exemption shall be conditioned upon the manufacturer, or the sponsor of the investigation, requiring that experts using such drugs for investigational purposes certify to such manufacturer or sponsor that they will inform any human beings to whom such drugs, or any controls used in connection therewith, are being administered, or their representatives, that such drugs are being used for investigational purposes and will obtain the consent of such human beings or their representatives, except where they deem it not feasible or, in their professional judgment, contrary to the best interests of such human beings. Nothing in this Subsection shall be construed to require any clinical investigator to submit directly to the Director reports on the investigational use of drugs; provided, that the regulations adopted under Section 505(i) of the Federal Act shall be the regulations in this Territory; provided further, that the Director may in his discretion promulgate regulations whether or not in accordance with regulations promulgated under the Federal Act.
(e)(1) In the case of any drug for which an approval of an application filed pursuant to this Section is in effect, the applicant shall establish and maintain such records and make such reports to the director of data relating to clinical experience and other data or information received or otherwise obtained by such applicant with respect to such drug, as the Director may by general regulation or by order with respect to such application prescribe; provided, however, that regulations and orders issued under this Subsection and under Subsection (d) shall have due regard for the professional ethics of the
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medical profession and the interests of patients and shall provide, where the Director deems it to be appropriate, for the examination, upon request by the persons to whom such regulations or orders are applicable, of similar information received or otherwise obtained by the director.
(2) Every person required under this Section to maintain records, and very person in charge or custody thereof, shall, upon request of an officer or employee designated by the Director, permit such officer or employee at all reasonable times to have access to and copy and certify such records.
(f) The Director may, after affording an opportunity for public hearing and judicial appeal, revoke an application approved pursuant to this Section if he finds that the drug, based on evidence acquired after such approval, may not be safe or effective for its intended use or that the facilities or controls used in the manufacture, processing or labeling of such drug may present a hazard to the public health.
(g) This Section shall not apply:
(1) to a drug sold in this Territory or introduced into interstate commerce at any time prior to the enactment of the Federal Act, if its labeling contained the same representations concerning the conditions of its use; or
(2) to any drug which is licensed under the Public Health Service Act of July 1, 1944 (42 U.S.C. § 201 et. seq.), or under the Animal Virus-Serum-Toxin Act of March 4, 1913 (13 Stat. 832; 21 U.S.C. § 151 et. seq.); or
(3) to any drug which is subject to Section 16(1) of this Act.
SOURCE: GC § 9720.16.
NOTE: For explanation of Subsection (g)(3) see NOTE to ‘40115.