The schedules for the 2023 Prescription Drug User Fees (PDUFA) (here), Biosimilar User Fees (BSUFA) (here), and Medical Device User Fees (MDUFA) (here) have been posted and are scheduled for final publication on October 7, 2022. However, the Generic Drug User fees (GDUFA) FR Notice has a stark word “WITHDRAWN” on the prepublication page with the […]
With the demise of the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab after the FDA’s accelerated approval and CMS’s actions to raise Medicare premiums in anticipation of huge demands based on its proposed pricing, we may now face another similar situation and that is with a drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After a 7-2 favorable vote by the […]
The FDA released a draft guidance titled Statement of Identity and Strength — Content and Format of Labeling for Human Nonprescription Drug Products: Guidance for Industry (here) which, not surprisingly, addresses the requirements for statements of identity and strength designations on the principal display panels (PDPs) of OTC drug products. The guidance notes that “[T]he […]
The nation has been struggling with drug abuse for as long as I can remember. The current opioid crisis keeps the problem on the front page, especially with fentanyl being disguised in a drug of abuse which has become one of the most deadly drugs of abuse in the long war on drugs. FDA has […]
In our previous installment, Tamil Arasu, former investigator with FDA, detailed preparations that a firm can make in advance of an FDA inspection, as well as details on the types of inspections that FDA performs on drug firms. In today’s post, Tamil will describe appropriate conduct during an inspection, including both the personnel that will […]
In a previous blog post (here), we discussed the results of an April 16, 2021 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Genus Med. Techs., LLC v. FDA, 2021 (U.S. App. Lexis 10928 [April 16, 2021]) which the FDA decided not to appeal. This court decision dealt with […]
On February 2, 2022, I posted a blog on the Agency’s Guidance Agenda for 2022 (here) and chose seventeen of the ninety‑eight guidances listed that were my favorites for a number of reasons, but most of all due to what I felt was their significance. And, today, one of the guidances I had selected was […]
On January 31, 2022, CDER released its Guidance Agenda for new and revised guidances expected to publish in 2022. While the list is somewhat aspirational, it provides a window into what the Center is working on and what we might see this year. The document lists 98 new and revised guidance and can be found […]
The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 50 novel therapies in 2021 which are described in a recently released 26-page report (here) that discusses in some detail the 50 novel products and their bearing on treatment for patients. The report discusses the mechanistic pathway for approval and provides a list of all the […]
FDA and industry have long wrestled with appropriate dissolution methodology for injectable suspension products. Investigations into the relevance of the dissolution methods utilized has shown wide variation in in vivo results despite consistent in vitro performance. As FDA notes in a recent article (here) on the new potential improved method developed to address “gaps between […]
