With five reporting days left in the month, the OGD reporting approval actions captured in the Daily Approvals list (here) and the All Approvals list (here) totaled fifty-eight full-approval actions and only four tentative-approval actions. This gives the OGD a chance to break the total approvals total for any month in FY 2020 if it […]
Proposed Law Would Provide Pathway for Generic Drugs Labeling Changes with a Reasoned Approach Proposed H.R. 5668 (here) titled, Making Objective Drug Evidence Revisions for New Labeling Act of 2020, outlines a path forward for making generic drug labeling changes when the reference listed drug is no longer marketed. We all understand the history of […]
Two prepublication Federal Register (FR) notices provide the backdrop for the historical demise of several products, and, with the final decision being affirmed that the products lack substantial evidence of effectiveness, they may no longer be marketed unless a New Drug Application with clinical data supporting the indications is submitted and approved. Vasodilan injection and […]
Well, there were some hidden tentative approval actions that must have been posted fairly late after June was over as the OGD official numbers released for June show OGD had 14 Tentative Approval (TA) actions (we reported just 5 in our post on July 6 [here]). (However, when looking at the FDA all approvals list […]
Well, June was apparently another good month for the OGD FDA work-from-home teams as the unofficial counts of the numbers show they managed 74 full approval actions and 5 tentative approval actions. The 74 full approval actions represented the highest total in a single month thus far in FY 2020, beating the next highest of […]
This morning I read Joe Graeden’s (The People’s Pharmacy) article titled “Can You Trust Generic Drug Quality” (here) and, as a former longtime senior official at the FDA who worked in the Office of Generic Drugs and have consulted for the industry for over twenty-five years, I had a kind of knee-jerk reaction and wanted […]
The FDA released an updated version of its Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: Modifications and Revisions Guidance for Industry as Revision 2. Originally issued in 2015 (here) and updated again in 2019, the June 2020 version contains much the same information but provides updates as to timetables, additional categories of PAS, CBE, and CBE 30 […]
The Agency has provided an updated list of drug products that are off-patent and have no unexpired period of market exclusivity and have no generic product approved. The revised list contains a 2-part listing and an appendix. Part 1 contains 269 targets products for “those drug products for which FDA could immediately accept an ANDA […]
OGD approval numbers have surged through June 15th as OGD has already issued 44 full approval actions and 4 tentative approval actions. 14 of those full approvals came on the 15th and 16th of June. Six of those approval actions were for Deferasirox Tablets, 90 mg, a generic of Jadenu. It appears that the block […]
Today, the FDA posted MaPP 5220.2 (here), which outlines a little-known process (because it so seldom happens) that describes how the Agency will go about converting an ANDA approval to a tentative approval (TA). The issue only occurs when a patent challenge is won by the innovator after the expiration of the thirty-month stay and […]
