ANDA approval actions totaled 66 this month, with 51 full approvals (APs) (a little below the monthly average of 55.7 in year 4 of GDUFA so far) and 15 tentative approvals (TA). Receipts picked up to 79 for the month for the third highest month of this fiscal year (FY) (behind 180 in December and […]
On June 5, 2016 we posted a blog (here) outlining Congressional support for an increase in the number of patients that practitioners can treat for substance abuse with designated medications. Tomorrow, HHS will publish a 112-page Final Rule (here) outlining how the phase in of an increase in the number of patients that a provider […]
The FDA recently issued a draft Guidance document; entitled “Control of Elemental Impurities in Drug Products”. This document provides guidance in light of the issuance of ICH Q3D Elemental Impurities and USP<232> Elemental Impurities – Limits and USP<233> Elemental Impurities – Procedures. USP <232>. Upon implementation (scheduled Jan 1, 2018), USP<232> and USP<233> will replace […]
FDA’s drug shortage list has a total of 60 drug products in the “currently in shortage” status (see list here). As you can see from the table below, injectable products are leading the list with 46 drug products currently in shortage. The second leading category are solid oral dosage forms and then just a […]
Back in January 2016, we posted a blog that described a revision in the bioequivalence (BE) Guidance for Paliperidone Palmitate extended-release suspension for intramuscular use (here). That draft Guidance revision was dated December 2015, just a few months ago. Now another revision takes its place. Some interesting changes are noted. We reported that the December […]
The Proposed Rule based on the Tentative Final Monograph (TFM) (here) is a 101-page monster that addresses consumer-type hand rubs that are designed to be used without water – generally, what one might think of as “hand sanitizers” (or “consumer antiseptic rubs” as the FDA terms them). The Proposed Rule DOES NOT cover “OTC consumer […]
In the most recent update of the bioequivalence (BE) recommendations, there is a new Guidance for the conduct of BE studies for Everolimus dated June 2016. This specific Guidance covers the use of the drug in treating organ rejection (here). A previous Guidance document (initially issued in March 2011 and then revised in June 2012) […]
FDA has denied an interesting petition that requested a change in dosage form from a solid oral tablet of methimazole to a rapidly disintegrating tablet for cats. The Agency said in its denial letter: “Your proposed change from the RLNAD with the justification you cited from Hatch-Waxman Amendments, 1984, does not support the change you […]
The FDA today released a technical reference document entitled, “Quality Metrics Technical Conformance Guide for the Implementation of the Draft FDA Guidance for Industry on Requests for Quality Metrics.” This Guide supplements the above referenced draft Guidance and outlines how the FDA would like the information on quality metrics collected and reported. Remember that, as stated […]
OGD published an updated version of its Paragraph IV database (here)This database lists those products that are both first-to-file and have made a paragraph IV certification claiming that at least one patent on the reference listed drug (RLD) upon which its ANDA is based will not be infringed, or that the patent is invalid or […]
