It’s another month of full stats in the books, but not much to cheer about. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights (or lowlights, if you will) of the month’s statistics. OGD Refused-to-Receive (RTR) 4 ANDAs in July and all four were for standard ANDAs. The average RTRs per month through the first […]
The metrics for June appear to be in line with those of other months this FY. There were no big surprises. Here are some of the highlights. The OGD issued only three Refuse-to-Receive (RTR) letters in June, with one for a standard ANDA submission and two for priority submissions. It still seems that priority submissions […]
November OGD ANDA approval actions totaled seventy-six, down from the ninety-three seen in October. The seventy-six approval actions consist of fifty-five full-approval actions and twenty-one tentative‑approval (TA) actions. Twenty-one TA actions is relatively high and came in second over the last FY with April 2020 generating twenty-two TA actions. In the beginning of FY 2019, […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) reported some of its official statistics for August today. As usual, the first official reported metrics deal with approval and tentative approval actions, receipt of new ANDAs, and issuance of complete response letters. The OGD reported 58 full-approval actions (which we nailed in our earlier post of unofficial stats […]
In the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments Reauthorization Act (GDUFA II), OGD committed to provide a quarterly report with certain metrics regarding their workload and mean and median approval times for full approval actions and tentative approval actions. As you can see from the numbers below, the number of ANDAs awaiting action at OGD is […]
Today OGD provided partial information for the typical first reported March Metrics and updated its February 2020 metrics. Let’s start with the new March data. OGD reports 60 full approval actions and 17 tentative approval actions for a total of 77 approval actions for original applications in March, which is the highest number of total […]
Today is January 8th and the OGD just updated the November 2019 metrics (here) with the following information of interest: the OGD refused-to-receive three ANDAs (all of which were standard applications) and acknowledged fifty-five original ANDAs. There were twenty ANDAs withdrawn in November (two were approved ANDAs that were likely no longer marketed) and eighteen […]