16
Feb
Do You Know Your Product’s Impurity Profile - Lachman Blog

Do You Know Your Product’s Impurity Profile?

ICH Q7 refers to the need to establish the impurity profile for an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API): “An impurity profile describing the identified and unidentified impurities present in a typical batch produced by a specific controlled production process should normally be established for each API. The impurity profile should include the identity or some qualitative […]

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08
Dec

FDA Proposes Rule to Change the IND Annual Report

Today’s pre-publication of the Federal Register contains a proposed rule (here) that will require the expansion of the current IND annual report. “Current § 312.33 requires sponsors that have an IND in effect to submit an annual report that must contain individual study information, which generally includes brief summaries of the status of each ongoing […]

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13
Sep

Right to Try Final Rule for Reporting Under the Act To Publish On Wednesday

In today’s prepublication of the Federal Register appears the final rule entitled Annual Summary Reporting Requirements Under the Right to Try Act (here). The Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina, Right to Try Act of 2017 (Right to Try Act), was signed into law on May 30, 2018. This Act provides an […]

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23
Aug

Revised Q&A Guidance on Charging for Investigational Drugs Issued by FDA

While FDA has allowed charging for investigational drugs since the 1987 “Charging Rule” went into effect, the Agency has been responding to questions from industry ever since. In 2009, the FDA revised the Charging Rule itself. The revised guidance (here) discusses these changes and notes that the “FDA’s regulations on charging for investigational drugs under […]

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14
Apr

FDA Issues Final Guidance on BA Studies in INDs and NDAs

Today, the FDA published the final guidance titled “Bioavailability Studies Submitted in NDAs or INDs — General Considerations” (here).  The final guidance comes after the FDA incorporated comments that it received on the draft of the same name issued on February 26, 2019.  That 2019 draft guidance replaced the March 2014 guidance titled “Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies […]

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14
Aug
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Do You Have Your Checkbook Ready? Be sure Clinicaltrials.gov Listings Are Made and Are Accurate!

FDA finalized its guidance entitled “Civil Money Penalties Relating to the ClinicalTrials.gov Data Bank Guidance for Responsible Parties, Submitters of Certain Applications and Submissions to FDA, and FDA Staff” (quite a mouthful) today (here) which was originally issued as a draft in September 2018.  The FR Notice announcing the availability of the guidance (here) indicates […]

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17
Jul

Mary Oates to Participate in Webinar on Virtual Inspections

On Tuesday, July 21, Mary Oates, Ph.D., Vice President, Compliance Services, will be participating in a webinar organized by Informa, publishers of the Pink Sheet and Scrip. Mary will be a panelist in a session on Virtual Drug Inspections, occurring at 2 PM EST. The entire webinar series, which is taking place over a 24 […]

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22
Apr
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Jump in Number of Clinical Trials for COVID 19 Treatments Explodes

In a post entitled The Path Forward: Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (here) penned by FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn, CBER M.D., Director Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., and CDER Director Janet Woodcock, M.D., the FDA describes the accelerated actions the Agency is taking to move the most promising therapeutic treatments to patients as quickly as possible. Just […]

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18
Mar

COVID-19 and Impact for Ongoing Clinical Trials – FDA Provides Guidance

With social distancing, borders closing, people self-quarantining at home, traveler screenings at airports, and people just trying to get home from abroad, perhaps only those contemplating starting or having an ongoing clinical study are thinking about or asking for guidance about what to do with clinical studies, while many of us are simply worried about […]

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