Coauthored by Kurt Karst (of FDA Law Blog) and Bob Pollock The “Petitioned ANDA”—It’s a route to ANDA approval that’s been around since even before the enactment of the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Amendments. For several years after the enactment of Hatch‑Waxman, the petitioned ANDA was a mainstay of the generic drug industry’s drug development paradigm. And although […]
Every day, when I look at the ANDA approvals list, I see that most of the approvals are for the older ANDAs that were submitted to OGD before Year 4 of GDUFA I (when goal dates started). Some of these applications are anywhere from six to ten years old. Once they receive approval, they have […]
With numbers reported to date through March 15th, it looks like the OGD will reach ninety approval actions this month. There have been thirty-eight full approvals and seven tentative approvals reported so far this month. With the OGD averaging eighty-eight full approvals for the first five months of FY 2019, it will need to push […]
Over the last two days, the FDA has announced the recall of two products from two different companies (here and here), each due to the presence of particulate matter in the product. One was confirmed as glass particles and the other as a copper salt (particulates seen at the twelve-month stability station). This is reminiscent […]
The FDA’s posting of the approval for the “priority” review ANDA for Valsartan mentioned yesterday (here) occurred today. The ANDA number was listed as 205536. It is interesting to note that the ANDA number corresponds to an application that was submitted around the middle of 2013. That is almost six years! It is interesting to […]
On March 12, 2019, the FDA approved an ANDA for Valsartan “to help relieve the recent shortage of this critical medicine as a result of multiple recalls of generic valsartan products from several manufacturers due to the finding that certain lots of Valsartan and other ARB medicines contain nitrosamine impurities.” The Agency prioritized the ANDA’s […]
Each year, the OGD publishes a list of first-time generic approvals, which are defined by the agency as: “First generics” are just what they sound like—the first approval by the FDA which permits a manufacturer to market a generic drug product in the United States. The FDA considers first generics to be important to public […]
Well, for the first time, our initial estimates of approval actions for a month was higher than the reported official figures, but are they really? Don’t know exactly how that happened because our estimates are usually below the totals. Anyway, the official figures posted today (here) were eight-two full approvals and seventeen tentative approvals. However, […]
In my own humble opinion, Scott Gottlieb’s resignation will come as a blow to both the industry and the public health of our nation. Dr. Gottlieb will stay in his position for about a month. There is no speculation as to whom his replacement will be, and, while some of the news outlets cite his […]
So far, for February 2019, it looks like OGD fully approved 83 ANDAs and tentatively approved 23 ANDAs. Of course, the final official numbers won’t be in for about another week or so, but it looks like another month in the 100’s (OGD total of 100 or greater approval actions was missed only one month […]
