With 5 working days left in January, and despite the turmoil this month has seen, we stand at 58 Full approvals and 17 Tentative approvals reported on the FDA All Approvals page (here) through January 24, 2019. Looking at the first quarter approvals (October thru December), there were a total of 278 full approvals which, […]
Today, the FDA published its required Activities Reports of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2019) – FDARA Title VIII, Sections 807 and 805 (here). These reports are published quarterly, as required by law, and outline the following activities: ANDAs subject to priority review, ANDAs with a competitive therapy designation (CTD), and pending suitability petitions (a […]
After thinking about our blog post yesterday (here http://www.lachmanconsultants.com/2019/01/the-20-day-window-catch-how-will-it-play-out-and-other-questions/), it now becomes clear why the update to receipts and approvals for the December posting of the Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2019) Monthly Performance (here https://www.fda.gov/drugs/developmentapprovalprocess/howdrugsaredevelopedandapproved/approvalapplications/abbreviatednewdrugapplicationandagenerics/ucm375079.htm) left out the number of December receipts. It is because the FDA has not yet decided […]
The unprecedented length of the government shutdown has a lot of people scratching their heads about lots of things. From a personal perspective, I have heard that FDAers are still getting paid (Commissioned Corps and civil servants) but the unknown is, for how long? When will the user fee money really run out? Has FDA […]
It will only be weeks until the User Fee carryover money for all the User Fee programs runs out. While Commissioner Gottlieb is doing his best to shuffle resources, the Agency will likely be up the perpetual tributary without any physical means of propulsion soon. Because the Agency cannot accept any new fee-paying applications since […]
In an unusual move, the FDA posted a guidance document on its webpage describing how to handle tentative approvals titled “ANDA Submissions – Amendments and Requests for Final Approval to Tentatively Approved ANDAs” (here) prior to its announcement in the Federal Register with this accompanying note: “We are posting this document on the FDA website […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) has taken great pride in meeting all of its GDUFA goals (including most, if not all, ANDA review goal dates). But, Houston, we may have a problem! Here are some facts that may have the OGD worrying into the future: December is typically one of the largest months for […]
OGD fully approved 69 original ANDAs and tentatively approved 31 for a total approval action of 100. This is actually 18 more than we were able to spot on the FDA all approvals actions in our January 3rd post (here). Not bad, considering the short month with vacations and the Federal government shutdown that started […]
Despite the shutdown, it appears that the OGD is still pumping out ANDAs and updating required statistical metrics as it chugs along under what must be stressful conditions. November 2018 (Month 2 of FY 2019) showed just four ANDAs received refuse-to-receive actions (four for standard ANDAs and one for a priority ANDA. The OGD acknowledged […]
I read four articles this morning that blamed high generic and brand name prices on everything from the confusion between list price and transactional pricing (here), to too much drug regulation (here), to PBMs and to the lack of negotiations between Medicaid and drug companies (here and here). I am sure that there are many […]
