The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) released its official approval and receipt numbers late yesterday. August saw 53 full approvals and 15 tentative approvals, leaving OGD 44 ANDA full approvals away from matching their previous FY record of 763 from FY 2017. These approvals are quite an accomplishment given the fact that the slowdown in […]
The Complex Generic Drug Development Workshop is currently being held in Silver Spring, Maryland September 12‑13, 2018. In her keynote address at the FDA’s Small Business and Industry Assistance (SBIA) workshop on complex generic drug development, Kathleen Cook Uhl stated that complex drug products are critical to the care of many serious medical conditions, such as […]
Reduced testing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), excipients, and other raw materials can be a valid approach to gaining overall efficiencies in the pharmaceutical quality control laboratory. However, the choice of tests to perform and the justification for choosing those tests are key elements of operating a compliant Reduced Testing Program that is also scientifically […]
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 […]
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 […]
