OGD reported 69 full approval actions, which we hit on the head, (three of the full approvals were for first time generic approvals) and 13 tentative approval actions (we reported only 9, as that was all that was found on the FDA’s All Approvals site at the time) for a total of 82 approval actions […]
In any analytical laboratory that performs cGMP testing, data review is required. However, to an analytical chemist that prefers benchwork, reviewing the data of a fellow analyst is often deemed an undesirable chore. The data reviewer rarely gets a “Thank you” for pointing out irregularities in documentation. The role of the data reviewer is to […]
As of August 5, 2020, the FDA had posted 69 full approval actions and 9 tentative approval actions for ANDAs for July 2020. The total of 78 approval actions for the month of July fall short of the 87 Approval actions in June but appears to be consistent with the last four month’s totals. Some […]
The Inactive Ingredient Database (IID) has been around for a long time, but it was not very user friendly, was not updated frequently, and failed to provide something we call the maximum daily exposure (MDE) for each inactive ingredient in each route of administration. Well, FDA has been working on the list of inactive ingredients […]
As part of the Agency’s ongoing efforts to ensure patient’s access to drugs, FDA is continuing to develop and evaluate a list of bulk drug substances that 503B Outsourcing Facilities can use in compounding, when it has been determined that there is a clinical/medical need that can’t be met by an available FDA-approved drug. On […]
The GDUFA fees for FY 2021 we announced today on the Federal Register pre-publication page (here). The new fees will be applicable for all submissions submitted on or after October 1, 2020. The FY 2021 fees with a comparison to the FY 2020 fees appear in the table below. GDUFA FY 2021 Fee Schedule Fee […]
The FDA announced the FY 2021 biosimilar user fees this morning on its Federal Register pre-publication page (here). The new fees can be found in the table below. BSUFA FY 2021 User fees Fee Category Rates for FY 2021 Rates for FY 2020 Percent Change Initial BPD $102,494 $117,987 -13.2% Annual BPD $102,494 $117,987 -13.2% […]
Today, the announcement of the User Fees for three FDA programs today were published in the Federal Register notice prepublication. PDUFA, animal and generic drug fees and medical device fees for FY 2021 start October 1, 2020 and are provided below. We await the GDUFA fee announcement, which we should see in a day or […]
Outsourcing facilities are compounding facilities defined under section 503B of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). There are yearly fees associated with establishment and re-inspection fees related to entities that compound human drugs and elect to register as outsourcing facilities under the FD&C Act. The FDA has Just published the fees for […]
Today, the FDA finalized an older draft guidance from August 2017 on repackaging of solid oral dosage form product from original containers into unit dose packaging that provides firms the ability to do so without (in most cases) performing additional stability studies. The Agency notes that it “received a few comments on the revised draft […]
