The Office of Generic Drugs has published its 2022 Annual Report (here), outlining its accomplishments over the year. As a reminder, this report has multiple sections and you can click on each section to see its contents once you are in the report; simply continue to scroll down until your fingers are tired. It’s important […]
February is a short month in workdays and it may be the same for approvals. Through February 17th, the OGD has issued twenty‑five full‑approval actions and fourteen tentative‑approval actions. With only six reporting days left this month, unless there’s a big surge in the next few days, we may be looking at the fewest approval […]
We have seen several changes from FDA with the roll-out of GDUFA III. Some have been a little frustrating (Controlled Correspondence blog coming soon!), but some have been pretty great! On February 17, 2023 FDA issued a new GFI, “Product-Specific Guidance Meetings Between FDA and ANDA Applicants Under GDUFA” (here). This GFI seems to point […]
Hello from sunny Orlando and the AAM annual meeting! The FDA’s Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, Principal Deputy Director, CDER, FDA, had the honor of providing the FDA’s keynote address. She started her talk by highlighting some of the accomplishments of GDUFA II, such as calling out the 490 first-generic approvals and 553 complex-generic approvals out of a total […]
Today, the FDA issued a total of thirty Product Specific Guidances (PSGs) – twenty‑one new and nine revised (here). The FDA notes that all twenty‑one newly issued PSGs are for drug products for which there are no approved ANDAs. In addition, of the thirty guidances issued, nineteen are for complex products (fourteen new and five […]
It’s that time of year. Taxes? Well, yes, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Instead, I’m referencing the equivalent for those of us in the pharmaceutical industry—CARES Act reporting. In the last couple of weeks, a flurry of emails arrived for many of us from the FDA, reminding us that: “Under section 510(j)(3) of the […]
If you’ve finished reading War and Peace, I have another thriller for you to sink your teeth into. The FY 2022 GDUFA Science and Research Report (here) provides 134 pages of interesting discussions on the OGD’s GDUFA research projects, the outcomes and benefits derived from the research initiatives as translated into Product Specific Guidances (PSGs) for […]
This is something I have not come across in over fifty years in the pharmacy and pharmaceutical business! The issue is related to a drug product called Hetlioz (tasimelteon) capsules, marketed by Vanda. The product is indicated for non‑24‑hour sleep‑wake disorder (non‑24) and nighttime sleep disturbances in Smith‑Magenis Syndrome (SMS) in children and adults. The […]
As the FDA notes, “Section 807 of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA) requires the FDA to report on certain abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) subject to priority review under section 505(j)(11) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act and certain ANDAs with a competitive generic therapy (CGT) designation under section 506H of the FD&C […]
With just about half of the month gone, and given that there have already been two holidays in January, the reported number of full-approval and tentative-approval actions looks pretty promising. Through January 17th at 9 a.m. Eastern time, the OGD has listed twenty-eight full-approval actions and ten tentative-approval actions in the All Approvals database for a total […]
