FDA’s ability to conduct on-site inspections has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While the FDA is looking and utilizing alternate methods to conduct such inspections when needed, some of the alternate methods are, at least, as time-consuming as actual on-site inspections. Because of this issue and the Agency’s goal of being transparent, they […]
Well, the holiday season may produce a “December to remember”, to quote a car manufacturer’s favorite tag line at this time of year. What we don’t know is will it be good to remember or not so much. December usually is one of the highest months for approval actions with the last three Decembers producing […]
Unofficially, it appears that FY 2021 is being kicked off by the highest number of approval actions in the last eighteen months. That’s right, it looks like the OGD will hit a total of at least ninety approval actions for October, which consist of at least seventy-seven full-approval actions and thirteen tentative-approval actions. Why do […]
Did you ever wonder about the FDA’s requirement than an applicant respond to a complete response letter (CRL) within one year of its issuance as provided for in the regulations at 21 CFR 314.110? Under this regulation, “an applicant must (1) resubmit its ANDA (i.e., submit all materials needed to fully address all deficiencies identified […]
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 […]
The Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984 (better know as Hatch-Waxman) provided a balance between innovation and competition by permitting generic drugs to rely on the safety and efficacy of a previously approved reference listed drug (RLD) rather than unnecessarily repeating duplicative clinical testing to prove what was already known about […]
The FDA has backed away and revoked a number of Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) that it had issued in the past, including those for hydroxychloroquine and a multitude of less-than-accurate COVID‑19 tests. By all accounts, there is a degree of trepidation in the scientific community that many of the Agency’s decisions regarding EUAs are being […]
There has been a lot of discussion about the need to retain up to five times the amount of test and reference drug product to perform release testing as reserve samples for products used in in vivo or in vitro bioavailability (BA) or bioequivalence (BE) testing for NDA or ANDAs products. The requirements were at […]
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 […]
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 […]
