Today, at the ISPE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, an important new tool in the battle against drug shortages will debut. The “Drug Shortages Assessment and Prevention Tool” drew on feedback from ISPE 2013 Drug Shortages Survey and 2014 Drug Shortages Prevention Plan, and focuses on the prevention and practical application to help industry assess its […]
Fran Zipp, President of Lachman Consultants, presented at the 2015 ISPE Annual Meeting, November 8-11 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. She spoke about the launch of the ISPE Drug Shortage Assessment and Prevention Tool, on Monday, November 9 at 10:45 AM. For a preview of the tool, please see this article authored by Fran in […]
Last Friday, FDA published a Notice in the Federal Register (here) relative to staying a portion of its September 2013 Guidance Document titled Investigational New Drug Applications (INDs) – Determining Whether Human Research Studies Can Be Conducted Without an IND. The Agency indicated that, based on comment received on various sections of the final Guidance, they […]
How does the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) make a determination to revise an existing bioequivalence (BE) guidance? What happens to the requirements for drug product under development or those products that are approved when a BE guidance is revised? These questions were addressed by Dr. Robert Lionberger and Dr. Larissa Lapteva in a session at the GPhA Fall Tech Conference.
As you know, the issue of controlled correspondence has historically been a contentious issue between the Office of Generic Drugs and the generic industry mostly related to timing of the response. The situation is not different today but the contention addressed today is more about the new definition of controlled correspondence and who may submit them.
Dr. Kathleen Uhl (Cook), Director Office of Generic Drugs (OGD), provided an excellent update on OGD’s progress under GDUFA. There were a number of interesting charts that described approvals, receipts and actions that defined what Cook called the “In Box” (what’s coming into OGD) and “Out Box” (productivity or what is going out of OGD).
I just received an update for the October approval numbers from OGD and the full approvals have been revised upward from 49 to 51.
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) is starting off FY 2016 at the same level that they ended FY 2015, with a total of 70 approval actions, one less than September’s record total. The breakdown is- 49 full approvals and 21 tentative approvals (TA). While I am certain that industry would like to see more […]
Lachman Consultants recently exhibited at BioProcess International Conference and Exposition at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA.
With Warning Letters (WLs) and significant FDA 483 observations continuing to confront the compounding pharmacy space, FDA is entering into rounds two and three of inspections to determine if corrective actions have been adequately and timely completed and if the compounding pharmacies understand compliance in this space
