The FDA is urging manufacturers to stop marketing oral OTC benzocaine products for teething and infants and children younger than 2 years of age. FDA also warns this is not just a problem with younger age groups. The product (which is both available for teething and oral spray product for adults) can trigger methemoglobinemia shortly […]
Today, the FDA published a list of innovator companies for which FDA has received requests from generic sponsors to request that the Agency intercede in obtaining samples so the generic applicant can conduct the necessary bioequivalence (BE) testing to support ANDA approval. The FDA has taken this extraordinary approach to provide greater transparency regarding this […]
Since its appearance in August 2007, the Guidance for Industry, ICH Q7A Good Manufacturing Practice Guidance for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients has stood the test of time in providing clear and practical guidance to the pharmaceutical industry, as described in the guidance’s original objective, “provide guidance regarding good manufacturing practice (GMP) for the manufacturing of active […]
OGD topped the initial projection of both approvals and tentative approvals from my May 2 post (here) hitting 66 full approvals (predicted 62), and 16 tentative approvals (at the time there were only 9) for a total of 82 approval actions. This is good news for the generic industry, as it appears that each month […]
Having attended several conferences where the topic of DSCSA has been discussed, and listening to leading vendors (those that provide both hardware and software) opining on how the industry is behind the eight ball in obtaining equipment and full integration, and validation due to long lead times with the number of vendors available, it appeared […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) filled in the remaining data boxes in the March Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2018) Monthly Performance (here) and there are some very interesting numbers to point out. Of the 9 refuse-to-receive (RTR) actions OGD issued last month, 6 were for GDUFA II priority applications, 1 […]
The Chart below was posted late yesterday on the CDER webpage. The most notable figures are the mean and median approval times and the significant reductions over those of the first quarter of FY 2018. This appears to indicate that either approval times were much shorter in the second quarter or the number of old […]
The climb back to what we have come to see as the new normal for approvals continued in April. The unofficial April approval numbers obtained through the daily approvals and FDA all approvals databases (here and here) lists 62 full approvals and 9 tentative approvals. This comes after a January low of 25 approvals, February’s […]
While reading a commentary today in Investor’s Business Daily (here) written by Peter Pitts, a former FDA Associate Commissioner, I became confused. The article’s focus was on two pieces of legislation (Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples [CREATES] Act and the House’s Fair Access for Safe and Timely [FAST] Generics Act) and Mr. […]
The Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) today published a Manual of Policy and Procedures (MaPP) document titled Requests for Expedited Review of New Drug Application and Biologics License Application Prior Approval Supplements Submitted for Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls Changes (here) for new drug applications and biologic license application holder that submit a prior approval supplement […]
