Based on the FDA advanced posting of material regarding the advisory committee meeting tomorrow to consider an EUA for the Pfizer vaccine, it appears that there should be clear sailing. From the materials that I was able to review, there were very few serious adverse reactions, 95% efficacy rate, and low episodes of severe disease […]
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced organizations worldwide to adjust current business goals and objectives drastically. One priority that hasn’t changed for companies regulated by the FDA is inspection preparedness and compliance. Although this process typically requires working on-site with qualified third-party experts, auditing for FDA inspection preparedness can now occur over a remote connection as […]
In May of 2014, the FDA issued a draft guidance entitled Best Practices in Developing Proprietary Names for Drugs. This draft guidance contained recommendations for the selection of proprietary names for both prescription (Rx) and over-the-counter (OTC) medications. In the 6-and-a-half-year interval that has passed since the issuance of this guidance, the FDA has initiated […]
On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, Fran Zipp, CEO and President of Lachman Consultants will be delivering the Opening Address during the Joint Opening Plenary Sessions of the ISPE Singapore Affiliate Virtual Conference. Joining her in the Joint Opening Plenary are Pierre Winnepenninckx, Conference Chair, ISPE Singapore Affiliate, and Shanshan Liu, President, ISPE Singapore Affiliate, as well as regulators […]
Paul Mason, PhD, Lachman Consultants, wrote a recent article for Contract Pharma discussing why it is critical to have controls in place during out-of-specification investigations to provide quality assurance. Here is a brief excerpt from the article: “While being audited by government health agencies, it can be expected that quality investigations will be reviewed since […]
The unofficial November totals for approval actions and tentative-approval actions for month two of FY 2021 dropped from a total of ninety-three to seventy-two. The seventy-two can be broken down into fifty-five full-approval actions and seventeen tentative-approval actions. As with every month, the totals may change a bit when the OGD reports its official numbers sometime […]
I read an Axios report this morning (here) written by Jonathan Swan, indicating that FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn has been summoned to the West Wing by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to explain “why he hasn’t moved faster to approve the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine“. This type of pressure has no place in science. […]
I marveled at the short sightedness of the Administration’s position to withdrawal the unapproved drug initiative to save the consumer money. Yes, there have been price increases when a firm has taken a previously unapproved drug product through the FDA approval system and the FDA forces the unapproved versions off the market. Firms need to […]
At first blush, it does not seem like we have that much to be thankful for in 2020, between the pandemic, polarized political views, a contentious election, worry about loved ones, quarantine and stay at home orders, restaurants closing and opening, only outside eating, and hospitals jammed packed and people dying, jobs disappearing and Federal […]
The FDA has just published a new draft Q&A Guidance document regarding BLA submissions for biosimilar products and interchangeable biosimilar products, as well as recommendations for labeling of interchangeable biosimilar products. This guidance (Biosimilarity and Interchangeability: Additional Draft Q & As on Biosimilar Development and the BPCI Act is available here) and supplements the two […]
