As you are well aware, the negotiations for GDUFA II have culminated in the release of the new GDUFA II Goal Letter and has improved (at least on paper) the chances for additional improvement in the speed of generic drug approvals. The initial overall baseline price tag for GDUFA II (starting on October 1, 2017) […]
The theme of Wednesday October 26, 2016 at the GPhA Fall Technical Conference was Patent and Exclusivity day (at least for part of the day) and in the category of “you learn something new every day!”, it was Pediatric Exclusivity that took the stage for me. Turns out that, if you are an ANDA applicant […]
Over the years I have been trying to convince firms that certain changes to approved ANDAs must always be filed as a Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) or, in some cases, these changes may be handled as a Comparability Protocol that is approved in an ANDA. At the GPhA Fall Technical Conference yesterday, Dr. Lucinda (Cindy) […]
There is no doubt that the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) is receiving more work than it anticipated under the negotiated GDUFA I program. Dr. Kathleen (Cook) Uhl, Director OGD, noted that OGD received over 5 years of work in the first 4 years of GDUFA I, noting that the Agency anticipated receiving only about […]
This blog post was coauthored by Kurt Karst, Director, Hyman, Phelps and McNamara If there’s something strange in your neighborhood; Who you gonna call? If there’s something weird, and it don’t look good; Who you gonna call? Unfortunately, FDA doesn’t have a Ghostbusters-type unit to call when there’s something strange or weird compliance-wise going on […]
We asked around about what issues were driving firms crazy and these same three issues surfaced most often: 1) getting resolution of compliance status after inspection or re-inspection; 2) getting a straight answer from the Agency; and 3) what to do about maximum daily exposure issues relative to the Inactive Ingredient Database (IID). Taking each […]
Yesterday, FDA published two separate Federal Register Notices (here and here) announcing a Notice of Opportunity for Hearing (NOOH) for the withdrawal from marketing of two firms’ methylphenidate extended-release tablets. The Agency had previously expressed concerns regarding the Therapeutic Equivalence (TE) of these two products based on significantly higher reports of therapeutic failure later in […]
OGD’s final numbers for approvals and receipts and a few other metrics for the full FY 2016 were released today. OGD approved 51 ANDAs in September for a total of 651 for FY 2016, an average of 54.25 ANDA a month. This represents the largest number of approvals in a fiscal year in (at least […]
“FDA is amending its regulations to revise the list of drug products that have been withdrawn or removed from the market because the drug products or components of such drug products have been found to be unsafe or not effective (referred to as ‘the withdrawn or removed list’ or ‘the list’) (§ 216.24 (21 CFR […]
The FDA pre-published a Final Rule (here) today implementing Title XI of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. FDA has been regulating directly from the statute since 2003 and now (based on various court decisions and FDA’s experience) has finalized implementing regulations for portions of the Act some 13 years […]
