We are pleased to announce that David Lonza has accepted the position of Head of EU at Lachman Consultants, effective September 1, 2017. David Lonza joined Lachman Consultants in August 2016, in the role of Deputy Advisor to the President / CEO – Strategic Initiatives. David’s expertise includes servicing pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical / biotech clients […]
On August 30, 2017, the FDA responded to three older petitions all submitted by the same law firm relative to Digoxin products. See FDA’s full response here. The petitions addressed three basic issues: 1) 3-year Hatch-Waxman exclusivity; 2) bioequivalence requirements for this narrow therapeutic index drug; and 3) dissolution and blend uniformity requirements. The petitions […]
The generic drug user fees for year 1 of GDUFA II have been announced by FDA. There are 2 fundamental differences in the GDUFA II fee structure relative to GDUFA I. First, GDUFA I was built on the assumption of OGD receiving about 750 ANDAs per year. The average number of ANDAs received over the […]
The ISPE has issued a GAMP: Records and Data Integrity guide which provides principles and practical guidance on meeting current expectations for the management of GxP regulated records and data, ensuring that they are complete, consistent, secure, accurate and available throughout their lifecycle. A critical component of the data lifecycle is Data Review. Data review […]
On Friday. the Office of Generic Drugs released an updated version of its workload charts (here). Two of the charts are displayed below with explanation. Total Original ANDA Workload Activity for Pre-GDUFA Year 3 Application Cohorts Thru 7/1/2017 This chart shows all pre-GDUFA year three applications (those before goal dates were assigned). There are 1,105 […]
During the Hatch-Waxman meeting recently held at FDA headquarters, the new Commissioner alluded to two documents that he pledged would be issued hopefully by the end of this year. One was a Good ANDA Assessment MaPP and the other a Good ANDA review Practices document. In reviewing the history of the industry complaints regarding inconsistent […]
For those of us that have been around a while and are well versed in the FDA’s expectations on repackaging of solid oral dosage forms into unit dose (UD) packaging, there is really nothing new in the recently published Guidance for Industry – Expiration Dating of Unit-Dose Repackaged Solid Oral Dosage Form Drug Products. (see […]
With an approval surge in the last few days of July 2017, the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) managed to fully approve 68 ANDAs and tentatively (TA) approve 14 ANDAs for an approval total for July of 82. Complete Responses tumbled to their lowest for most of GDUFA I at 81, clearly the lowest of […]
The question of where, when, and how to label a product, whether it be a prescription drug, OTC product under an approved application, or an OTC product marketed under the monograph system has always been kind of a guessing game for manufacturers, packagers, and repackagers. Now, a new Guidance titled “Child-Resistant Packaging Statements in Drug […]
James Davidson, PhD, Vice President, Science and Technology practice, Lachman Consultants recently authored an article in Contract Pharma. The article, “Data Integrity Guidance Around the World”, reviews guidance issued by worldwide authorities (FDA, MHRA, PIC/S, and TGA) with regards to data integrity controls and the overall framework for a data governance system. The article can […]
