On Friday. the Office of Generic Drugs released an updated version of its workload charts (here). Two of the charts are displayed below with explanation. Total Original ANDA Workload Activity for Pre-GDUFA Year 3 Application Cohorts Thru 7/1/2017 This chart shows all pre-GDUFA year three applications (those before goal dates were assigned). There are 1,105 […]
During the Hatch-Waxman meeting recently held at FDA headquarters, the new Commissioner alluded to two documents that he pledged would be issued hopefully by the end of this year. One was a Good ANDA Assessment MaPP and the other a Good ANDA review Practices document. In reviewing the history of the industry complaints regarding inconsistent […]
For those of us that have been around a while and are well versed in the FDA’s expectations on repackaging of solid oral dosage forms into unit dose (UD) packaging, there is really nothing new in the recently published Guidance for Industry – Expiration Dating of Unit-Dose Repackaged Solid Oral Dosage Form Drug Products. (see […]
With an approval surge in the last few days of July 2017, the Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) managed to fully approve 68 ANDAs and tentatively (TA) approve 14 ANDAs for an approval total for July of 82. Complete Responses tumbled to their lowest for most of GDUFA I at 81, clearly the lowest of […]
The question of where, when, and how to label a product, whether it be a prescription drug, OTC product under an approved application, or an OTC product marketed under the monograph system has always been kind of a guessing game for manufacturers, packagers, and repackagers. Now, a new Guidance titled “Child-Resistant Packaging Statements in Drug […]
FDA was hoping to have the User Fee Bill passed and to begin work on publishing fees and the accompanying Federal Register Notices that must go out ahead of the September 30 expiration of the funding measures. Remember, FDA must have legislation in place in order to request the fees, collect the fees, and spend […]
The Office of Generic Drugs’ update to the Activities Report of the Generic Drug Program for June 2017 (here) lists 6 Refuse-to-Receive (RTR) actions, the lowest for any moth this fiscal year. As a matter of fact, it is the lowest number of RTR actions since early in the GDUFA days when, in May 2013, […]
To date, according to the FDA All Approvals report (here), so far this month there have been 54 recorded full approvals and 11 tentative approvals. Of course, we have today, July 31, not yet reported and there will be a few posting of approvals over the last 2-3 work days, but, unless there is a […]
The FDA today, in the Federal Register, announced a public workshop to be held on September 12, 2017 to discuss the use of real world data (RWD) and real world evidence (RWE) in its regulatory decision making process. The workshop, titled, “Developing a Framework for Regulatory Use of Real-World Evidence”, will be held in Washington […]
Today, OGD released an updated version of a Q&A document entitled, “Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2012: Questions and Answers: Related to Self-Identification of Facilities, Review of Generic Drug Submissions, and Inspections and Compliance”. This document provides FDA responses to many questions that have been raised by industry during the administration of GDUFA I. […]
