The Office of Generic Drugs updated its Generic Drugs Program Activities Report – Monthly Performance for January (here) to fill in more data on various metrics. As you know, the Agency typically comes out with the number of ANDA approval and tentative-approval actions and receipts of original ANDAs, along with the number of complete response […]
FDA has proposed some relief from the component shortages created for parenteral and other products identified in the just released Guidance entitled, COVID-19 Container Closure System and Component Changes: Glass Vials and Stoppers. The Agency has recognized the need to provide some regulatory flexibility regarding the filing type for certain changes that may be necessitated […]
On January 14, 2020, we posted a blog (here) concerning a Drug Safety Communication discussing FDA’s concern that the drug product Belviq or Belviq XR (lorcaserin) could increase the risk of cancer. On September 16, 2020, we posted a blog noting FDA’s final action withdrawing the 2 NDA drug applications for the product mentioned above […]
OGD released its official numbers for approval actions, complete response letters and ANDA original receipts for January today, as well as updating metrics for December 2020. From our unofficial numbers reported for January, we hit the numbers of full approval actions on the nose at 62, but OGD snuck in an additional tentative approval action […]
As you know, we try to track the ANDA approval actions and report on other OGD metrics as closely and as early as we can to try to give you the most current and most timely information. The one thing we have found that the generic industry, as a whole, is most interested in are […]
Looks like we all will be doing a lot of reading and assimilation of new information in 2021. The CDER Guidance Agenda – New & Revised Draft Guidance Documents Planned for Publication in Calendar Year 2021 contains 105 new and revised guidance documents that CDER plans to release this year. While there are a number […]
We are two-thirds through the reporting workdays for the month of January 2021 and OGD has reported 35 full approval actions and 4 tentative approval actions (total 39). If the pace of approvals does not pick up in the last 6 reporting days, we are set to have a total of full and tentative approval […]
Goal dates extended, virtual inspections taking longer, and on-site inspections still too slow for industry. COVID is mostly to blame, but, once the vaccine is widely available, then maybe inspection activity will pick up further domestically and possibly even foreign inspections. Right now, the landscape is not pleasing to either FDA or the industry. High […]
On January 15, 2021, the FDA issued the guidance titled “Protecting Participants in Bioequivalence Studies for Abbreviated New Drug Applications During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency”. This guidance provides recommendations to study sponsors for the continuation or initiation of their bioequivalence (BE) studies during this COVID-19 public health emergency. As is no surprise, FDA clearly […]
While reading a blog post by Michael Mezher of RAPS this morning, entitled HHS Pushes Through Last-Minute Policies Impacting FDA (here), it struck me that my own age old question is almost (and I stress almost) being addressed. The question is, when a regulation or statute directs the FDA to meet certain review timeline requirements, […]