For those struggling with understanding all the complexities of running a 503B compounding facility, a new resource is now available. The International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (ISPE) has a new guide coming out titled “503B Compounding – Regulatory Basis and Industry Good Practices for Outsourcing Facilities” (here). Do you know why compounding exists? Shouldn’t all […]
Of the many benefits that have come from the Generic Drug User Fee Act (GDUFA) over the years, one has been the addition of response times for the FDA to answer Controlled Correspondences (CCs) that were first negotiated under GDUFA II. The Agency issued an FDA CC guidance, which was finalized in December 2020. Having a […]
Unless you’ve been living under a (pharmaceutical) rock, you are aware of the struggle that both FDA and industry are having with Nitrosamines impurities in pharmaceutical products. As a reminder, APIs are at risk of forming nitrosamine drug substance-related impurities (NDSRIs) when they contain secondary amines or dimethyl tertiary amines. We have published many blogs […]
The PDA Annual Meeting was held in New Orleans on April 3-5, 2023. It was a great conference with the theme of “Back to the Future: Learning from the Past in a Patient‑Centric World.” The plenary and breakout sessions truly held to that theme. The first plenary session started off with a discussion of Rare Diseases […]
We have seen several changes from FDA with the roll-out of GDUFA III. Some have been a little frustrating (Controlled Correspondence blog coming soon!), but some have been pretty great! On February 17, 2023 FDA issued a new GFI, “Product-Specific Guidance Meetings Between FDA and ANDA Applicants Under GDUFA” (here). This GFI seems to point […]
It’s that time of year. Taxes? Well, yes, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Instead, I’m referencing the equivalent for those of us in the pharmaceutical industry—CARES Act reporting. In the last couple of weeks, a flurry of emails arrived for many of us from the FDA, reminding us that: “Under section 510(j)(3) of the […]
Day two of the Association of Accessible Medicine (AAM) Generics and Biosimilars Conference, which took place on November 8, 2022, started with plenary session presentations from Dr. Susan Rosencrance, Acting Director, Office of Generic Drugs (OGD), Dr. Michael Kopcha, Director, Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ), and Donald Ashley, JD, Director, Office of Compliance (OC) with the FDA. […]
Throughout the PDA-FDA Joint Regulatory Meeting that took place September 12-14, 2022 in Washington D.C., the subject of Remote Assessments (RA), also called Remote Interactive Evaluations (RIEs), was repeated over and over again in sessions. This is not a new thing, as the Guidance for Industry (GFI), “Remote Interactive Evaluations of Drug Manufacturing and Bioresearch […]
During day 2 of the PDA conference, there was a very enlightening session called “Game Plan: Progress to the Next Stage of Contamination Control.” Anne Marie Dixon-Heathman, President of Cleanroom Management Associates, Inc., gave a presentation called “Contamination Control: A new approach to the Reduction of 5-micron particles.” She discussed product loss resulting from five-micron […]
The theme for the PDA annual meeting this year is “Agility in the New Normal.” The plenary address kicked off the meeting with an interesting presentation by Dr. Jeffrey Baker, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL), titled “Pandemic Response, Regulatory Rubric, and the Nature of Rubber Bands.” He spoke about the intrinsic […]
