FDA announced (here) that, so far this CALENDAR year through March 24th, the Office of Generic Drugs has approved 11 first-time generics. That appears to be a good start for the first three months of the year. All the first-time approvals can be viewed at the link above. Remember that not all first approvals will […]
Seems like almost every day a new Federal or State law is proposed to deal with drug pricing for both brand and generic pharmaceuticals. . The latest entries that appear to be making progress through the legislative process are from the states of Washington and Nevada. One can just imagine that there are specific differences […]
Paul F. Vogel has announced his retirement as Chairman of the Board of Lachman Consultants, effective March 31, 2017. Paul plans to spend more time with family and his many personal interests, following a 44-year career that included 21 years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration followed by 23 years at Lachman Consultants. Richard […]
While there is not much new to report in the newly added numbers for certain metrics in the Activities Report of the Generic Drug Program for 2017 (here), there could be some raising of the eyebrows at the number of Complete Response Letters (CRL) issued in February (136), which is the lowest number issued for […]
Ever since I can remember, the submission date of an ANDA has been reported in the approval letter of the application. That practice stopped in early 2016, as reported in our blog post (here). The submission dates of applications are important metrics that help the industry to track approval times for applications. We heard a […]
We all know how to reset the clock at daylight savings time (albeit the first morning we may find ourselves a bit behind or ahead). We all know how and when to change our watches when we cross time zones. FDA now needs to find out how to reset the clock on several ANDAs, and […]
Once a vibrant means to bring various changes from a reference listed drug (RLD) to market, the ANDA suitability petition seems to have become the bottom of the totem pole, the last one in line, or a member of the forgotten world. As outlined under section 505(j)(2)(C) of the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic […]
Just as the various User Fee Acts (UFA) go to congress for mark-up and reauthorization, a proposed administration budget contains a suggested doubling of fees charged for medical product reviews. Am I seeing this correctly? Industry and FDA have worked tirelessly over the last year and a half to get the various User Fee programs […]
OGD has revised its bioequivalence (BE) recommendation for rifaximin 200 mg and 550 mg tablets. Quite interestingly, the requirements for products that are qualitatively and quantitatively (Q1 & Q2) the same as the reference listed drug (RLD) will have a reduced burden and may eliminate conducting bioequivalence studies with clinical endpoints (albeit pharmacokinetic [PK] studies […]
We don’t like to mention specific products in this blog, so let’s just say an FDA panel yesterday gave a less-than-stellar review of the benefits of an abuse deterrent product by stating that the benefits of a firms’ long-acting opioid pain reliever no longer outweighed its risk. A crushing blow to the product for […]
