As of August 5, 2020, the FDA had posted 69 full approval actions and 9 tentative approval actions for ANDAs for July 2020. The total of 78 approval actions for the month of July fall short of the 87 Approval actions in June but appears to be consistent with the last four month’s totals. Some […]
The Inactive Ingredient Database (IID) has been around for a long time, but it was not very user friendly, was not updated frequently, and failed to provide something we call the maximum daily exposure (MDE) for each inactive ingredient in each route of administration. Well, FDA has been working on the list of inactive ingredients […]
The GDUFA fees for FY 2021 we announced today on the Federal Register pre-publication page (here). The new fees will be applicable for all submissions submitted on or after October 1, 2020. The FY 2021 fees with a comparison to the FY 2020 fees appear in the table below. GDUFA FY 2021 Fee Schedule Fee […]
Today, the FDA finalized an older draft guidance from August 2017 on repackaging of solid oral dosage form product from original containers into unit dose packaging that provides firms the ability to do so without (in most cases) performing additional stability studies. The Agency notes that it “received a few comments on the revised draft […]
In the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments Reauthorization Act (GDUFA II), OGD committed to provide a quarterly report with certain metrics regarding their workload and mean and median approval times for full approval actions and tentative approval actions. As you can see from the numbers below, the number of ANDAs awaiting action at OGD is […]
With five reporting days left in the month, the OGD reporting approval actions captured in the Daily Approvals list (here) and the All Approvals list (here) totaled fifty-eight full-approval actions and only four tentative-approval actions. This gives the OGD a chance to break the total approvals total for any month in FY 2020 if it […]
On Tuesday from 9:00-3:00 PM, the FDA held a virtual public meeting to obtain initial input from federal agencies, healthcare organizations, industry trade associations and other stakeholders in general on the reauthorization preparations for the third iteration of GDUFA. It is not known whether FDA will provide a link to the virtual program, as it […]
Proposed Law Would Provide Pathway for Generic Drugs Labeling Changes with a Reasoned Approach Proposed H.R. 5668 (here) titled, Making Objective Drug Evidence Revisions for New Labeling Act of 2020, outlines a path forward for making generic drug labeling changes when the reference listed drug is no longer marketed. We all understand the history of […]
Well, there were some hidden tentative approval actions that must have been posted fairly late after June was over as the OGD official numbers released for June show OGD had 14 Tentative Approval (TA) actions (we reported just 5 in our post on July 6 [here]). (However, when looking at the FDA all approvals list […]
FDA announced a target date for the resumption of prioritized domestic facility inspections beginning on July 20, 2020. The Full FDA announcement can be found here. FDA points out that they will be closely watching the trajectory of COVID-19 cases by area, as well as other logistical factors (i.e., public transportation) and will make decisions […]
