Public comment period · §3
Draft monograph: Epithalon — disposition
The disposition of every submission and the amendments that resulted.
§3Disposition and amendments
§3.1Disposition table
Table 1. Every submission with its disposition. Each row links to the submission in full.
| Reference | Respondent | Point raised | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/001 | Ms Rhiannon Okoye-Vandergraaf | The document is unreadable without specialist training | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/002 | Dr Emiliana Ollerenshaw | The monograph should not describe how the compound is supplied outside a regulated route | Noted, no amendment |
| DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/003 | Dr Hyacinth Drakeford-Amadi | Doses are expressed in units that differ between sections | Accepted |
| DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/004 | Dr Henrike Jastrzębska | The preclinical section is extensive and the clinical section is not | Accepted in part |
| DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/005 | Dr Lorcan Trelawney | Adverse event frequencies are given without the denominator or the exposure period | Accepted |
| 5 submissions in total. | |||
§3.2Summary by disposition
Table 2. Counts by disposition, with the meaning of each.
| Disposition | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Accepted | 2 | The submission is accepted and the draft is amended as proposed. The amendment is recorded in the amendment log of the document it changed and is traceable to the numbered submission. |
| Accepted in part | 2 | Part of the submission is accepted and part is not. The secretariat response states which part is which and on what ground the remainder was declined. |
| Noted, no amendment | 1 | The submission raises a point the Institute accepts but that does not require a change to the draft, most often because the draft already states it elsewhere. The location is given in the response. |
| Not accepted | 0 | The submission is not accepted. The secretariat response gives the reason. A submission that is not accepted remains published in full; the Institute does not remove a submission because it disagrees with it. |
§3.3Resulting amendments
- The document is unreadable without specialist training — arising from DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/001. Every document now opens with a plain-language summary of not more than 150 words, placed above the technical abstract and carrying the same certainty language, so that the two cannot diverge.
- Doses are expressed in units that differ between sections — arising from DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/003. A single dose unit is now used throughout each monograph, with the source unit retained in parentheses wherever a conversion was applied, and every conversion is stated rather than performed silently.
- The preclinical section is extensive and the clinical section is not — arising from DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/004. The preclinical section is reduced in length, placed after the clinical assessment rather than before it, and opens with a standing statement that an effect observed in an animal model is not a clinical outcome and does not support a certainty rating.
- Adverse event frequencies are given without the denominator or the exposure period — arising from DRAFT-EPITHALON-MO/005. Every reported frequency now carries the number of participants, the number of events and the exposure period, and comparator-arm figures are reported alongside rather than in a separate table.
References cited on this page
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- International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. ISO/IEC Standard 2017;3rd edition. identifier not held by the Institute
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