Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
§ 25.30 General.
Exclusion Text
(e) Extramural contracts, other agreements, or grants for statistical and epidemiological studies, surveys and inventories, literature searches, and report and manual preparation, or any other studies that will not result in the production or distribution of any substance and, therefore, will not result in the introduction of any substance into the environment.
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