Since January 2018, the number of ANDA approvals has slowed dramatically. In the first three months of FY 2018 (beginning in October 2017), ANDA approvals were averaging 83 a month. The monthly average for January and February was 28.5. We know that the slowdown in approvals was due in large part to the change in […]
Today, the FDA released a new report titled Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2018) – GDUFA II Quarterly Performance (here) which has some new figures we have not seen in any form before. The new information includes mean and median approval time by cohort action for both original and tentative approvals […]
Even though the slowdown in ANDA approvals, attributable to the issues of elemental impurities, has dampened the first two month of 2018 (here), the number of first-time generic ANDA approvals seems to be higher than would be expected. FDA reported 10 first-time generics (note that there may be multiple reports for the same drug if […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) posted its updated Dashboard for ANDA workload activity on Friday. The new posting is current through the first quarter of FY 2018 as of January 1, 2018. Original ANDA Activity for Pre-GDUFA Year 3 Application Cohort Total Original ANDA Workload Activity for All Unapproved Applications Clearly, FDA is resolving […]
As noted in a previous blog post (here), I did not expect ANDA approvals to reach anywhere near normal levels for a few months. Since that post, OGD has posted a few more approval actions; the official numbers for February were reported today at 32 full approvals and 5 tentative approvals (as opposed to 29 […]
Even with this season’s flu season past its peak, FDA is warning consumers about potential fraudulent product touted as curing or lessening the flu. The FDA health fraud alert (here) warns consumers to be aware of fraudulent product claiming to treat, prevent, or lessen flu symptoms. In addition, they also warn patients to be wary […]
The US FDA just released their Guidance for Industry titled “E6(R2) Good Clinical Practice: Integrated Addendum to ICH E6(R1)” (here). The guidance provides a path forward for the mutual acceptance of clinical trial data across regulatory authorities from Canada, the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. The guidance clearly identifies the added revisions, […]
According to the FDA all Approvals list (here), approvals for February 2018 did inch up a bit to 29 full approvals and 4 tentative approvals, but they are still far below the OGD norm. We had previously predicted that it would take about 3 months before the approval train got back on track, and now […]
The FDA has issued a guidance (here) that provides clarification on the definitions of suspect and illegitimate products under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). The definitions are designed to help those in the supply chain better and more accurately characterize problem products they may uncover. The guidance provides the following definitions: SUSPECT PRODUCT—The […]
Getting back to the elemental impurities (EI) issue, we received additional interesting feedback from one ANDA sponsor. They said sometimes “this stuff gets tricky.” The sponsor related a situation of a capsule ANDA product that could be administered multiple times a day at high maximum daily dose. The empty capsule shell had the standard limit […]
