According to the Office of Generics Drugs (OGD) September 29, 2023 announcement (here) on October 2, 2023 OGD will expand the types of face-to-face (FTF) meeting it will entertain. That is of course, if the government does not shut down on Sunday October 1, 2023. Prior to this announcement, and after the Covid emergency was […]
The FDA notice (here) states: “[T]he over-the-counter (OTC) monograph annual forecast is a nonbinding list, issued each year, of planned monograph activities that FDA intends to initiate over the ensuing 3 years.” When the new monograph system went into effect, it was designed to reduce time to decision making by eliminating the lengthy comment and […]
Well, here is a surprise! The price for the use of a priority review voucher in FY 2024 dropped about $210,000 from the 2023 fee. In a pre-publication notice today (here), the FDA announced the FY 2024 fee for the use of a Tropical Disease Priority Review Voucher, Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher, or a Material […]
Senator Mullin and Booker yesterday introduced a bill (here ) to permit e-labeling (electronic package inserts) to eliminate paper waste and permit firms to provide the most updated information almost instantaneously. There was also a press release (here ) that explained once more what has been explained a number of times in the past. This […]
Yesterday, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives issued a press release (here) after the hearing on Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs) and their impact on drug pricing. The press release is titled “Hearing Wrap Up: Pharmacy Benefit Managers Push Anticompetitive Drug Pricing Tactics to Line Their Own Pockets.” I guess this […]
This is a follow-up to the blog post “Houston, We Have a Problem” (here), noting that, with the exception of the one ANDA approval on September 5, 2023, no other ANDA approvals have been posted to either the Daily Approvals or All Approvals FDA websites through today! As I mentioned in that blog post, this problem […]
If you watch the news at all, you know about this but, more importantly for anyone that has taken phenylephrine, the lack of efficacy should have been very noticeable, especially if you have ever taken pseudoephedrine. The FDA has just issued a statement (here), clarifying the Advisory Committee’s recommendation regarding the lack of efficacy of […]
Today is September 13. 2023. That is not eye-catching news, but the fact that there has only been one ANDA reported as being approved is a bit troubling. We are hoping that this is a recurrence of a glitch in the FDA’s information systems and that ANDA approvals and tentative approvals are just not posting. As […]
This morning, the FDA published the OTC Monograph request Fee rates for FY 2024 in a pre-publication Federal Register notice (here); these rates cover fees for OTC monograph order requests (OMORs) for which there are Tier 1 and Tier 2 requests. The distinction for the two classifications of OMORs are a Tier 1 request (usually […]
We had predicted, based on mid-month statistics (here), that August would be a big month for approval actions and, boy, was it! The OGD issued ninety-six full-approval actions along with twelve tentative-approval actions for a total of 108 approval actions. This was the second biggest month in FY 2023, behind the 117 approval actions in March […]
