As we reported here back in July 2015, FDA has warned patients and healthcare professionals about a potential look-alike, sound-alike naming issue with an antidepressant Brintellix (vortioxetine) and Brilinta (ticagrelor), a blood thinning agent. Yesterday, FDA announced that they had approved a name change for the antidepressant product to Trintellix. This change hopefully will help […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) fully approved (AP) 53 ANDAs and issued 16 Tentative Approvals (TAs) in the month of April. Thus far in FY 2016, OGD approved a total of 399 ANDAs averaging 57 a month-a 29% increase over FY 2015’s average of 41 a month. Tentative Approvals in FY 2016 total 109 […]
Well, not really-but on April 12, 2016 (my birthday), the FDA’s Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., Deputy Director, Regulatory Programs, in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) gave a presentation (here) entitled, “FDA Regulation of Marijuana: Past Action, Future Plans.” It is quite interesting to note that FDA has been actively involved in the regulatory […]
On April 25, Terri Nataline and Fran Zipp participated in a summit focusing on global strategies for Indian pharmaceutical companies, the Annual Global Pharma Regulatory Summit, in Mumbai, India. This summit brings together global regulators who shared their knowledge about complying with international regulatory guidelines for manufacturing and exporting pharmaceuticals. Terri Nataline, Principal Consultant, presented […]
On April 21, President and CEO of Lachman Consultants Fran Zipp gave a presentation at the 6th Annual Generic International Summit (GIS) in Shanghai, China. Her talk, “Data Integrity and Quality Culture” was part of a session on “Consistency Evaluation and Formulation”. She discussed the history of Application Integrity Policy (AIP), recent trends in data […]
It appears that if you wait long enough, things come full circle. Take, for instance, claims that some artificial sweeteners cause cancer, or that coffee was bad for you, or that chocolate only made you fat. Well, that appears to be in the cards for the Black Box warning on the smoking cessation drugs Chantix […]
Most of the pharmaceutical industry has issued White Papers, blogged, sent letters to FDA, and lobbied their trade associations over the FDA’s Proposed Labeling Rule that would permit generic manufacturers to unilaterally add safety information to their approved labeling. Even Congress is getting into the act in trying to derail the FDA’s proposal. The Proposed […]
In an unusual 12-0 vote, an FDA advisory panel recommended that the acne treatment adapalene gel 0.1% be switched to Over-the-Counter (OTC) use. If the FDA concurs, this will be another FDA approved product to join a number of OTC monograph products in the OTC market to treat acne.
While the number of data integrity (DI) findings have increased over the last few years, as evidenced by citations in a number of Warning Letters, the FDA stance on DI seems to have mellowed since the generic drug scandal of the late 1980s. The FDA guidance document (here) walks firms through their responsibilities in assuring […]
Lachman Consultants was the Business Exposition Sponsor at the Generic Pharmaceutical Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, held February 22-24, 2016. If we didn’t see you there, we hope to see you at our booth there next year!
