On September 7, 2018, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated that the FDA will expand on their implementation of their 2018 Compounding Priorities Plan and that they feel like they must continue to balance the need to preserve access to appropriately compounded drugs for patients who have a medical need for these products with the need […]
The FDA estimates that the burden of information collection under their newly revised draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) (here) and reporting to the FDA to be about 7600 hours per year per state (assuming approximately 2000 work hours per year; this equates to about four new employees per year per state). The FDA also estimates […]
The FDA’s Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., Deputy Director, Regulatory Programs, in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), gave a presentation on April 12, 2016 entitled, “FDA Regulation of Marijuana: Past Action, Future Plans.” A key take-away from the presentation was that the Agency supports the development of drugs derived from marijuana (MJ). This included […]
The GDUFA II reauthorization process involved a lot of agreements from the FDA. One of those agreements was for the Agency to publish a guidance on changes to drug substances that addressed the type of changes, their categories for submission (PAS, CBE, CBE-30, or annual report) and the necessary documentation that must be submitted to […]
The GRx+Biosims Conference held in Baltimore, MD from September 5-7, had a session on the GDUFA II Pre-ANDA Program for Complex Products on the last day, presented by FDA. The presenter, Kris Andre, Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs, Office of Research and Standards, Office of Generic Drugs (OGD), discussed in detail the logistics and agency’s […]
I know that the flag was raised in victory when the first generic of EpiPen was approved. Not many people outside those familiar with the plight of complex generic products could understand how or why it took so long for a generic version of that product to make it through the approval process. This is […]
FDA’s User Fee Staff provided an overview of the progress and implementation of the first year of GDUFA II and BsUFA II user fees during the afternoon session of the second day of the GRx +Biosims Conference held at Baltimore, MD from September 5-7. The presentation recapped how the user fee structure for GDUFA II […]
On the second day of the first annual 2018 GRx+Biosims Meeting in Baltimore, MD held from September 5-7, 2018, Kurt Karst, JD and Mark Schwartz, JD (Directors, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C) provided a very informative overview of cGMP trends and emerging legal issues concerning GDUFA and FDARA. The on-going modernization of the generic drug […]
The GRx+Biosims Conference held at Baltimore, MD from September 5-7, had a panel discussion regarding Successfully Managing Priority Generic Submissions on September 6th. The panel members were representatives from the industry. Discussions centered around the experience with priority submissions in the first year of GDUFA II. The consensus was that the submission of PFC (pre-submission […]
With eCTD submission format becomming binding as of May 5, 2017 for NDA, BLA, and ANDA and May 5, 2018 for Commercial IND and Master Files, the number of submissions to the FDA in eCTD format has significantly increased. According to Jonathan Resnick of the Office of Business Informatics (OBI), CDER received nearly 180,000 eCTD […]
