The FDA announced in a safety warning today (here) that it was adding a Black Box Warning on all opioid and benzodiazepine products due to continued concern relative to potential fatal interactions and severe adverse events. The warning notes that the “FDA review has found that the growing combined use of opioid medicines with benzodiazepines […]
Have some spare time on your hands? Read the new Final Rule that FDA pre-published today (here) . FDA says the rule, to become effective 90 days after final publication in the Federal Register (FR), is designed to modernize the drug and establishment listing requirements of sections 207 and 607, and to bring them in […]
While there is not much new or trendy in the updated figures, it is clear that OGD is issuing more Complete Response Letters (CRLs). July saw the second highest number of CRLs for FY 2016 with 169 (highest was 190 in April). These numbers are also significantly higher than those in previous years. This means […]
Today, FDA reissued the Guidance for Industry: Abbreviated New Drug Application Submissions-Refuse to Receive for Lack of Justification of Impurity Limits, but the word “Proper” was removed from its title. The title of the previous version read Abbreviated New Drug Application Submissions- -Refuse to Receive for Lack of Proper Justification of Impurity Limits (emphasis added). While […]
Fidaxomicin, like vancomycin, is indicated for treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea. Both drugs are poorly absorbed systemically and treat the condition locally in the gut and intestines. Vancomycin, however, appears to be more soluble that fidaxomicin over the range of physiologically-relevant dissolution media. The innovator of fidaxomicin submitted a petition, FDA-2015-P-1595 (here) requesting that […]
An article authored by Jim Davidson, Ph.D, Vice President, recently appeared in the July-August issue of Pharmaceutical Engineering. This very timely article, “The Real Cost of Poor Data Integrity in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing”, has also been the subject of White Papers authored by LCS, as well as the topic of numerous industry symposia. Congrats to Jim […]
For many years, innovators have used the petition process to gum up ANDA and 505(b)(2) approval process and hopefully delay FDA clearance of such applications. Because of this problem, Congress was compelled to pass legislation (the Food and Drug Administration Administration Act [FDAAA] of 2007) to help correct this unintentional impact on generic drug, 505(b)(2) NDAs, […]
Our blog post of August 15, 2016 contained an error. What we meant to convey was that unless the capsule composition did not change, a PAS was required. We have changed the post to correct this error, and apologize any confusion that this might have caused.
We recently posted an overall summary of the new draft PIC/S Data Integrity Guidance document (here). While this valuable Guidance document covers much of the same ground as previous Data Integrity Guidance documents from other regulatory agencies, it is particularly noteworthy that in several areas it provides detailed practical requirements heretofore never provided in a […]
Sponsors are required to submit information in their NDA filings to include “the patent number and the expiration date of any patent which claims the drug for which the applicant submitted the application or which claims a method of using such drug and with respect to which a claim of patent infringement could reasonably be […]
