The FDA issued a revised draft guidance titled “Drug Products Labeled as Homeopathic Guidance for FDA Staff and Industry” (here) describing the FDA’s proposed risk-based enforcement approach to homeopathic products. This compliance guidance represents current Agency thinking after comments were reviewed based on the initial guidance (here) that was issued in December 2017. The document […]
Well, another full FY has come and gone and OGD has posted the rest of its FY statistics. Let’s take a look at how this full second year of GDUFA II stacks up with the first year of GDUFA II and journey back a bit to GDUFA I for certain metrics to see what we […]
FDA published a revised draft guidance titled Postmarketing Studies and Clinical Trials—Implementation of Section 505(o)(3) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Guidance for Industry. If you have any post approval study requirements for any of your products, you should pay close attention to this document. In describing the document, the Agency says: “This […]
The FDA released a final Q&A document titled “Identification of Manufacturing Establishments in Applications Submitted to CBER and CDER: Questions and Answers” that provides answers to some of the most frequently asked and problematic questions raised by incomplete manufacturing, testing, packaging, etc. The document provides specific guidance on what, where, and how to list such […]
A new draft guidance titled (quite originally) Drug Master Files (here) has replaced the Drug Master Files: Guidelines that was published in 1989. There have been many changes to the requirements and procedures for DMFs based on new laws, policies, and procedures, as well as procedures associated with GDUFA commitment letters for ANDAs, and (of […]
For the first time since GDUFA’s beginning, the number of ANDA approval actions exceeded the number of ANDAs received in a given FY (935 approvals vs 909 new ANDA receipts). In addition, OGD smashed the FY approval record with the 935 approval actions by 154 (or 16.5%) more than the previous record of 781 in […]
It has been a while since the FDA updated its guidance on PDUFA fee waivers, etc., but the newly released Prescription Drug User Fee Act Waivers, Reductions, and Refunds for Drug and Biological Products document provides much needed new information about the FDA’s fee program. The Federal Register Notice (here) announcing the availability of the […]
At the end of August, we noticed that all of the ANDA approvals were not appearing on the FDA Daily Approval Listings (here), nor were they appearing on the FDA All Approvals Report (here). In September, it got worse, with less than half of approvals showing up (we believe). It appears that the problem has […]
In thinking about the current vaping issues, which have been associated with a significant number of deaths and hundreds, if not thousands, of lung-related injuries, I think the path to the future of these products needs to be critically evaluated by the FDA. The introduction of e-cig came so fast that the FDA was not […]
While California is usually a very progressive state, I believe that Governor Newsom did not quite understand the implications of the bill he signed into law banning pay-for delay patent settlements. I believe he failed to see that not all pay-for-delay cases are anticompetitive. According to the Association of Accessible Medicines (AAM) statement about the […]
