On March 7, 2024, the FDA adopted ICH Guideline Q14 Analytical Procedure Development, which became official on November 1, 2023. This guidance complements updated ICH Guideline Q2(R2) Validation of Analytical Procedures, which also became official on November 1, 2023 and was adopted by the FDA on March 6, 2024. The Q14 guidance (here) combines a science- and risk-based approach […]
A month and half after the close of the January books, we now get a look at the output and incoming workload of the Office of Generic Drugs for January 2024, the fourth month of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. I will provide some of the highlights of the Generic Drugs Program Monthly Report, but you […]
Benzoyl Peroxide is the active ingredient in many acne creams, ointments, gels, and combination semi-solid products for the treatment of acne. These products are sold either by prescription or over the counter. Valisure is the same testing lab that uncovered the nitrosamine impurities in Ranitidine products that developed over the expiration dating life of drug […]
The OGD’s approval actions for the month (at least those posted by March 5, 2024) are in line with the first four months of this fiscal year. There were 52 full approval actions and 11 tentative approval actions for a total of 63 approval actions. While we have not seen January’s official statistics yet, the […]
FDA published a conversation piece on narrow therapeutic index drugs entitled, “Setting and Implementing Standards for Narrow Therapeutic Index Drugs” (here ) to better inform health care professionals (HCP), patients, and other consumers regarding the use of and how the FDA treats narrow therapeutic index (NTI) drugs. Let’s look at what an NTI drug is […]
Is your firm preparing for the wave of AI regulations, laws, white papers, and regulatory guidances? As reported in a previous Lachman blog, EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act: Impact on Pharma and MedTech, laws are emerging, but can companies keep up with the pace? Last year, the EU did what the U.S. has not been […]
First, please be aware that many of the numbers you may have seen reported in our blog posts for various OGD actions were reported for Fiscal Year 2023, which ran from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The Office of Generic Drugs 2023 Annual Report (here) is a bit different as it reports OGD actions from […]
Based on approvals posted through February 16, 2024, the OGD has issued 28 full-approval actions and 5 tentative-approval actions so far in the month of February. Given that February is a short month to start with and has one federal holiday, we may get additional help as it’s a leap year and the additional day may […]
In 2022, there were six Warning Letters and five 483 observations for issues relating to Diethylene Glycol (DEG) and Ethylene Glycol (EG). In 2023, there were thirty-six Warning Letters and nineteen 483 observations for DEG and EG concerns. So far this year (mid-February 2024), there have already been three Warning Letters containing observations for DEG […]
ICH Q7 refers to the need to establish the impurity profile for an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API): “An impurity profile describing the identified and unidentified impurities present in a typical batch produced by a specific controlled production process should normally be established for each API. The impurity profile should include the identity or some qualitative […]
