With just 6 days until Halloween, what does the prospect for Trick or Treat look like in the ANDA approval candy basket? So far, the reporting of approval actions looks like treats will be in the bag. As of approval actions reported through October 22, 2021 OGD has issued 50 full approval actions and 6 […]
FDA reported 70 full approval actions and 15 tentative approval actions in September for a total of 85 approval actions for the month. The 85 approval actions fell into the second most approval actions in FY 2020 behind only April’s total of 87. The full approval action in September was also the second highest this […]
This morning, in reading an article from the Pink Sheet written by Sarah Karlin-Smith, I flashed on my blog post from September 24, 2020 (here) discussing the new warning on benzodiazepine products. In this post, I had expressed concern that the abuse-deterrent formulation (ADF) craze of opioid formulations might be creeping in on other products […]
The end of the FY saw a bump back up to the 80’s for number of total approvals with 73 “line item” full approval actions and 10 tentative approval actions. What the heck is a “line item” approval action, you may ask? Well, we noticed in September (or perhaps we just missed it in previous […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking final official action withdrawing the approval of two new drug applications for BELVIQ (lorcaserin hydrochloride (HCl)) tablets and BELVIQ XR (lorcaserin HCl) extended-release tablets which were originally approved by FDA on June 27, 2012 and July 15, 2016, respectively. This announcement was made on the Federal Register’s […]
Although we were caught off guard by a slightly early update to the July metrics which preceded Official August approval and receipt numbers, we are happy to present them to you at this time. OGD issued 4 refuse-to-receive (RTR) actions and all four were for standard ANDAs. The Agency acknowledged (filed or received, whatever you […]
According to the unofficial August numbers derived from the FDA’s All Approvals list (here), the Office of Generic Drugs issued 58 full approval (AP) actions and 10 tentative approval (TA) actions during the month of August 2020. The number of APs and TAs are both the lowest number of approval actions in the past 7 […]
With six (6) reporting days left in the month, the FDA’s All Approvals List (here) has identified 43 full ANDA approval actions and 10 tentative approval actions. While this represents a bit slower pace for approval actions, there is still time to meet FY 2020 monthly averages by the end of the month. We want […]
There has been a lot of discussion about the need to retain up to five times the amount of test and reference drug product to perform release testing as reserve samples for products used in in vivo or in vitro bioavailability (BA) or bioequivalence (BE) testing for NDA or ANDAs products. The requirements were at […]
OGD reported 69 full approval actions, which we hit on the head, (three of the full approvals were for first time generic approvals) and 13 tentative approval actions (we reported only 9, as that was all that was found on the FDA’s All Approvals site at the time) for a total of 82 approval actions […]
