In a CDER Conversation piece entitled Patents and Exclusivities for Generic Drugs, Captain Martin Shimer, Deputy Direction, Division of Legal and Program Support, Office of Generic Drugs (OGD), briefly outlines various issues with patents, patent certifications and describes that various types of exclusivity that must be dealt with. Patents are pretty straight forward, with the […]
Ricki Chase, Director, Compliance Practice, will be presenting at the American Pharma Outsourcing Summit taking place September 27th and 28th, 2017 at the Doubletree by Hilton Boston North Shore. Ricki will be presenting on the Regulatory Hazards of Outsourcing, and will cover the following areas: Approving products on a batch-by-batch basis Establishing laboratory controls Training […]
The CDER website provides the following information relative to the new outsourcing compounders fees for FY 2018. Compounders Outsourcing Fees FY 2018 Establishment Small Business* $5,364 Non-Small Business $17,364 Re-inspection Fee $16,093 * To qualify revenue must be less than $1,000,000 for all sites and affiliates The Notice states that “FY 2018 registration period for […]
The new Commissioner of FDA, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., has been moving very quickly since assuming his post. In a recent announcement reported by RAPS in its Regulatory Focus (here), he indicated FDA’s upcoming plans to “begin releasing letters that FDA sends to brand drug companies when generics question the agency on whether they should be […]
Wided Najahi-Missaoui, MS, PharmD, doesn’t know the meaning of the word “can’t.” Since arriving in the United States from Tunisia in 2000, she has earned two graduate degrees (a close friend says she collects degrees like others collect stamps), and accolades. Her mentor, Dr. Michael Griffith Bartlett, who is Professor and Director–BS Program at the […]
In a Federal Register (FR) notice published today (here), the FDA announced that the base amount for the prescription drug user fee (PDUFA) program for new drugs would be $878,590,000, plus another $22,415,658 from something called the “capacity planning adjustment”, which is based on the elements the Agency is using to calculate costs (see list […]
Remember when GDUFA I first started and there was a huge number of ANDAs submitted prior to the October 1 implementation date to avoid paying the ANDA fee? Remember when OGD changed its stability requirement in June 2014 and there were 635 ANDAs submitted prior to the implementation of the new stability requirements? Well, October […]
We were close with our September 6th post (guess) but there were a few more approval actions reported in the official statistics that were released Friday September 8 in the afternoon. OGD approved 60 ANDAs and tentatively approved 17 ANDAs for a total approvals action of 77. There was also a spike in Complete Response […]
Looking at the FDA’s “All Approvals” list (here) and slugging through supplements and originals for both ANDAs and NDAs, it looks like OGD efforts in August will yield about 57 approvals (the 7th lowest so far in the first 11 months of FY 2017). Also, though OGD tentatively approved (what looks to be like) […]
Friday, September 1, 2017, the FDA issued MaPP 5200.14, a 43-page document that describes the Office of Generic Drugs’ internal policy and procedures for evaluating an ANDA for initial receipt as substantially complete for “receipt” (filing) purposes. We previously posted about this document here. The MaPP also outlines the Refuse-to-Receive (RTR) limit on the types […]
