Being in the pharmaceutical business, we are all aware of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requirements for child-resistant containers. We know that CPSC now regulates such child-resistant closures (CRCs), but the FDA requires firms to certify that the packages they claim to be child-resistant meet the CPSC regulations as well. Most of us think […]
The FDA issued a guidance today that describes the what, when, and how (as well as other key elements) of its Competitive Generic Therapy (CGT) process. The CGT process was originated with the passage of the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017. The CGT provisions permit expediting review of ANDAs for products […]
In the normal course of business, firms typically have an expiration date on their product and, when the product reaches its labeled expiration date, the product is not supposed to be used beyond that date. We all know that the expiration date on a product is usually not always a bright line after which being […]
Because we know that information regarding approval actions of original ANDAs is critical to the industry, we track them as closely as we possibly can in order to give the readers the latest information. The full approval and tentative approval actions are the lifeblood of the industry. February 2020 continues on the lower end, and […]
For those of us in regulated industry, we all treat guidance from FDA with as much reverence as the tablets that Moses carried down from Mt Sinai. However, for those of us who are not employed by FDA, the processes underlying the issuance of these guidances is very opaque and mysterious, and, for those involved […]
Well, here we are in 2020, almost halfway through GDUFA II, and what do we know? We know that the OGD expects approvals to slow down, but original ANDAs to begin to fill up the system again. We have already seen the slowdown in approvals and, according to the OGD, this is likely to continue […]
Daraprim (pyrimethamine) Tablets 25 mg first made news in 2015 when Martin Shkreli (also known as “the most hated man in America” and “Pharma Bro”) was the head of Turing Pharmaceuticals and raised the price of this NDA drug product some 5,000%, from $13.50 a tablet to $750 a tablet. (Shkreli was charged in federal […]
Well, I am back from three weeks of traipsing around South America and ready to hit the blogging trail again. Thanks to all my Lachman colleagues who took up the charge and did a great job in my absence. However, while away, I tried to keep up by reading the trade press when I had […]
The FDA issued its Fiscal Year (FY) GDUFA Science and Research Report last week (read the full report here and the awarded research contracts and grants here). A review of the innovative scientific focus areas helps those of us in the industry to get a sense of where the FDA is headed in support of […]
The use of contract manufacturers for the production of approved drug products has become more and more commonplace, particularly with the steady increase through the years of virtual pharmaceutical companies, a business model where the majority of the drug development and production work is outsourced to third parties as needed. While the use of a […]
