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title: "21 CFR §12.75"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-12.75"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "1"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "A"

subchapter_subject: "GENERAL"

part_code: "12"

part_subject: "FORMAL EVIDENTIARY PUBLIC HEARING"

subpart_code: "D"

subpart_subject: "Presiding Officer"

section_number: "12.75"

section_subject: "Disqualification of presiding officer."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 12.75"

title_name: "Title 21"

title_subject: "Food and Drugs"

parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 99"

revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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(a)A participant may request the presiding officer to disqualify himself/herself and withdraw from the proceeding. The ruling on any such request may be appealed in accordance with § 12.97(b).

(b)A presiding officer who is aware of grounds for disqualification shall withdraw from the proceeding.

§12.75 - Disqualification of presiding officer.