Is a mature pharmaceutical quality system really a competitive advantage? The industry held this as a belief, but progress in a tangible program was always elusive. On November 2nd, the CDER’s advisory committee, Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology Advisory Committee (PSCP‑AC), voted to establish a Quality Management Maturity (QMM) program to incentivize investments in mature […]
October is the first month of the fiscal year 2023 and, while not necessarily a bellwether of things to come, it is certainly the starting point of GDUFA III. The unofficial tally looks good as OGD issued 58 full approval actions and 11 tentative approval action for a total of 69 total approval actions. While […]
As Lester Holt says at the introduction of the last show segment on NBC Nightly News – “There’s good news tonight”. The same might be said of the recently released GDUFA II Quarterly Performance Report (here). The figures for the fourth quarter have some really good news. First, the number of ANDA awaiting FDA action […]
Last Friday, FDA issued four (4) guidance documents that establish the FDA’s current thinking on requirements for establishing sameness and bioequivalence of topical products. They cover in vitro permeation testing, in vitro release studies, Q3 characterization studies, and studies required for corticosteroids of medium and high potency. While there have been many documents and discussions […]
This is the first month of GDUFA III and thus the first month of FY 2023! For approval actions posting through October 19th which include approvals posting through October 17th (postings are usually one or two days behind the actions taken), OGD has issued 22 full approval actions and 6 tentative approval actions for a […]
Well, with the final FY 2022 totals now in for some of the OGD’s most important metrics, let’s see how this fiscal year stacks up other GDUFA years. But first, September saw sixty-eight full-approval actions of which nine were for first-time generics and only nine tentative-approval actions along with ninety-eight new ANDAs and 141 Complete […]
There is no question that GDUFA III has brought with it a lot of changes. OGD has begun issuing Guidances and MaPPs to reflect the changes and updating those document that were issued under previous iteration of GDUFA. Rather than trying to paraphrase each Guidance and explain what changes have been made in the past […]
Just after we posted the blog about the other User Fee programs from the prepublication of the Federal Register, we receive an email from FDA indicating that the Fee Schedule was available, but there was a problem with the FR publication (here). Here are the new FY 2023 Generic Drug User Fees compared with the […]
With only the September metrics left to round out the FY 2022 statistical report for the OGD, let’s take a look at the full official numbers for August. We also now have a good idea how FY 2022 will stack up against FY 2021, albeit a lot can happen in a few weeks as we await the […]
Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) comments “Today, [I] introduced the Updated Drug Labeling for Patient Safety Act, legislation to direct the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow generic drug manufacturers to update their product labeling with safety-related information.” (see here). He notes that “[T]he Updated Drug Labeling for Patient Safety Act is commonsense legislation […]
