Well, here we are, just before Thanksgiving again. It seems like just last week we were getting ready for last year’s shindig. We certainly have a lot to be thankful for this year and on top of the list is a clean bill of health after a horrible 2016 for my family. Second is the […]
Well, in the dietary supplement battle for the erectile dysfunction (ED) market, it seems that FDA continues to find supplements that contain undeclared drugs. In a public notification today, FDA advised consumers not to use yet another product for ED (see here). As reported previously, it seems that FDA issues a few notices a month […]
The answer to the question of whether current cleaning validation limits generally in use in the industry (1/1000th of the minimum therapeutic dose of a drug product or 10 ppm) should be revised in favor of a Health Based Exposure Limit (HBEL) based limit was one of the major discussions at a “Workshop on the […]
The first Activities Report of the Generic Drug Program FY 2018 (here) issued today and it is a record breaker for approvals and Complete Response Letters (CRL). FDA broke the 100 mark with 101 approval actions with 87 full approvals (AP) and 14 tentative approvals (TA) (we predicted about 84 APs and 13 TAs back […]
We are pleased to announce that Jose L. Toro has accepted the position of Principal Consultant in the Compliance Practice at Lachman Consultants, effective November 13, 2017. Dr. Toro has extensive R&D Quality, and Quality Operations experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He specializes in the transformation of Quality and Technical Services organizations including Quality Systems, […]
As stated in the FDA November 2016 draft Guidance, Submission of Quality Metrics Data – Guidance for Industry (here), one of the Quality Metrics that the FDA intends to monitor is the Invalidated Out-of-Specification (OOS) Rate (IOOSR). The IOOSR quality metric is the number of OOS test results for lot release and long-term stability invalidated […]
From August 2016 to October 2017, FDA has issued 63 Warning Letters (an average of 4 per month) and has orchestrated 4 Injunctions and multiple prosecutions against Compounding Pharmacies and their Principals. Most of the Warning Letters deal with citations for insanitary conditions for compounding and for lack of sterility assurance for compounded preparations. It […]
The Path to Bioequivalence – Great Progress – Great Opportunities, was presented by Charlie DiLiberti, President, Montclair Bioequivalence Services LLC, at this week’s Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) meeting. Charlie pointed out the great progress FDA has made in developing new bioequivalence techniques or alternate methods through the GDUFA regulatory science initiative. He pointed to […]
Although the generic industry has come a long way in terms of Quality-by-Design or the desired space, it is still in early stages when it comes to Dates and Abbreviations as they relate to GDUFA. It has been a little overwhelming to the participants of this year’s Association of Accessible Medicines (AAM) Fall Technical Conference […]
I was lucky enough to moderate the panel on the Priority and Expedited Review with panel members Scott Tomsky and Kurt Karst at the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) on November 8, 2017. You all know them and it was interesting that the three of us were, without a doubt, on the same page. What […]
