For all Sponsors submitting INDs, NDAs, ANDAs, BLAs, and supplements, and the bioanalytical laboratories analyzing and reporting the data to support these submissions, the FDA just issued its Guidance for Industry, “Evaluation of Internal Standard Responses During Chromatographic Bioanalysis: Questions and Answers.” The Q&A guidance contains five questions, along with the Agency’s current thinking on […]
Contract Pharma published an article back in March briefing how the FDA will administer the transition of NDAs to BLAs. Facing the future transition of biological products from regulation as new drugs under the FFDCA to regulation as biologics under the PHSA in March of 2020, it is not too early to begin incorporating this […]
When it comes to ice cream and desserts, I must admit the more the better in my opinion. The same, however, doesn’t hold true for laboratory testing and the resultant data. All testing performed and data generated must be accountable to ensure the integrity of the data. Performing extra testing, even if with all good […]
In a Federal Register announcement today (here), the FDA announced the availability of a final guidance entitled Child-Resistant Packaging Statements in Drug Product Labeling. The guidance provides information on the type of statement that may be made on child-resistant packaging for drug products. As a reminder, the FDA has not regulated child-resistant packaging since 1973, […]
It certainly seems that the world is getting smaller and this concept has been coming to the regulated industry for quite some time now. As early as 1999, the European Commission has been working diligently with the EMA and other regulatory bodies throughout the world to form Mutual Recognition Agreements (MRAs) related to inspections and […]
On July 9, 2019, FDA finalized the Guidance for Industry titled, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Modifications and Revisions. The current Guidance updates the previous Guidance with the same name that was issued on April 7, 2015. The update is more of a finalization; the portion of the draft that sets forth the submission procedures for […]
New MaPP (Manual of Policy and Procedures) 6004.3 (here) fully outlines the internal process that FDA will go through for reviewing and recommending safety label changes (SLCs) for NDAs, BLAs, and ANDAs. It also discusses the process for FDA-mandated and -ordered label changes “when implementing section 505(o)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act […]
Section 7002(e)(4) of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 requires that on March 23, 2020, all New Drug Applications (NDAs) for biological products will be “deemed to be a license” under Section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA). In December of last year, the FDA published a final guidance as […]
The list, published by the Office of Management and Budget, outlines a host of proposed and/or final rules the FDA “hopes” to publish, or at least consider, in 2019. Given the state of and the bent towards new or additional regulations in the current administration, this seems like an ambitious agenda for the Agency. The […]
The FDA’s recently published draft guidance titled Development of Therapeutic Protein Biosimilars: Comparative Analytical Assessment and other Quality-Related Considerations (here) is a significant improvement over the withdrawn 2012 guidance (i.e., Quality Considerations in Demonstrating Biosimilarity to a Reference Protein Product) that it replaced. The increased level of detail and wider breadth of topics gives a […]
