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title: "21 CFR §20.87"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-20.87"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "1"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "A"

subchapter_subject: "GENERAL"

part_code: "20"

part_subject: "PUBLIC INFORMATION"

subpart_code: "E"

subpart_subject: "Limitations on Exemptions"

section_number: "20.87"

section_subject: "Disclosure to Congress."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 20.87"

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)All records of the Food and Drug Administration shall be disclosed to Congress upon an authorized request.

(b)An authorized request for Food and Drug Administration records by Congress shall be made by the chairman of a committee or subcommittee of Congress acting pursuant to committee business.

(c)An individual member of Congress who requests a record for his own use or on behalf of any constituent shall be subject to the same rules in this part that apply to any other member of the public.

§20.87 - Disclosure to Congress.