Today, the FDA advised that it “recently became aware of a nitrosamine impurity, Nitroso‑STG‑19 (known as NTTP), in certain samples of sitagliptin, a medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus. To avoid a shortage and help ensure patients have access to an adequate supply of the medicine, the FDA will not object to the temporary […]
With a flurry of approvals at the end of the month, the unofficial count of approval actions for July 2022 breaks out as follows: 65 full approval actions and 12 tentative approval actions, for a total of 77 approval actions. This is the 7th out of 10 months that the total approval actions have broken […]
With just three months left in FY 2022, the OGD provided its update, adding the rest of the June statistics. We now have a full picture of the first three quarters of the metrics provided in the FDA Generic Drugs Program Activities Report – Monthly Performance. Here are some highlights of the complete June report […]
Today in a prepublication Federal Register notice, (due to be published tomorrow), the FDA announced the addition of 29 new and 19 revised product specific guidance (PSG) documents. The Agency acknowledges that, “as part of FDA’s commitments under the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments Reauthorization of 2017 (GDUFA II), FDA will publish guidances for reference […]
“Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.” (Tom Peters – Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell, Fast Company, March 2001), from […]
Outsourcing facilties are compounding facilities that are registered by the FDA and subject to inspection. The fee structure is rather simple, with facility fees and reinspection fees only. The fee rates for FY 2023 will go into effect on October 1, 2022. A chart comparing the FY 2022 and FY 2023 fees is provided below: FY 2022 […]
For years, the FDA has been concerned about running out of numbers for the National Drug Code (NDC) to use to identify drug products. They estimate that their runway for exhausting all NDC number combinations may come in 10-15 years. Well, FDA published a proposed rule entitled Revising the National Drug Code Format and Drug […]
Depending on the context, a year can either seem like an eternity or a rather short period of time; the details and context will always matter. In the draft Guidance for Industry issued on July 22nd (here ), the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) laid out its expectations for complying with the regulatory requirement for […]
For each FY quarter, the OGD publishes a series of metrics (as agreed to in the GDUFA II commitment letter) that identify the FDA’s workload by indicating the number of ANDAs awaiting the OGD’s action, including new ANDAs submitted each month, with separate line‑items for tentatively approved (TAed) ANDAs awaiting approval (the FDA’s current ANDA workload) […]
While most of us old timers grew up with Therapeutic Equivalence (TE) after the passage of Hatch-Waxman, the newly released draft guidance on TE (here) should be a good primer or refresher for most interested parties. There may also be some things you did not know, like how a 505(b)(2) application can request a TE […]
