Yesterday, the Office of Generic Drugs released twenty-four new and thirteen revised Product Specific Guidances (PSGs) with recommendations for conducting studies necessary to establish bioequivalence between test and reference products. Of course, the revisions might spell trouble for applicants that have already commenced testing according to the original guidances, but this has been a bone […]
On February 2, 2022, I posted a blog on the Agency’s Guidance Agenda for 2022 (here) and chose seventeen of the ninety‑eight guidances listed that were my favorites for a number of reasons, but most of all due to what I felt was their significance. And, today, one of the guidances I had selected was […]
On January 31, 2022, CDER released its Guidance Agenda for new and revised guidances expected to publish in 2022. While the list is somewhat aspirational, it provides a window into what the Center is working on and what we might see this year. The document lists 98 new and revised guidance and can be found […]
Covering a multitude of subjects, the Agency published eight new guidance documents ranging from the ICH M9 BCS classification system to a Q&A document on qualified infectious disease designations. Here is a list of the eight guidance documents. M9 Biopharmaceutics Classification System-Based Biowaivers (here) E9(R1) Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials: Addendum: Estimands and Sensitivity Analysis […]
Looks like we all will be doing a lot of reading and assimilation of new information in 2021. The CDER Guidance Agenda – New & Revised Draft Guidance Documents Planned for Publication in Calendar Year 2021 contains 105 new and revised guidance documents that CDER plans to release this year. While there are a number […]
While many in the industry have complained about the handling of controlled correspondences (CCs), the numbers of CCs submitted in a given month continues to rise as it has every fiscal year since the process was formalized under GDUFA I. Complaints of non-answers to questions, unclear answers, and just flat-out denials of acceptance of CCs […]
FDA recently launched a comprehensive listing of COVID-19 related guidance documents, which can be found here. Tracking all COVID 19 related documents can be daunting, as the content is being issued at a fast and furious rate, and this website will make that task a little less onerous. The list is filterable, sortable, and can […]
For those of us in regulated industry, we all treat guidance from FDA with as much reverence as the tablets that Moses carried down from Mt Sinai. However, for those of us who are not employed by FDA, the processes underlying the issuance of these guidances is very opaque and mysterious, and, for those involved […]
January was a gangbuster month for the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) with regard to publication of gene therapy (GT) guidance documents! A total of six final guidelines and one draft guideline on GT products were issued. These included: Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control Information for Human Gene Therapy Investigational New Drug […]
The FDA released its most current version, its “Guidance Agenda: New & Revised Draft Guidances: CDER Plans to Publish During Calendar Year 2020,” yesterday and there are some interesting things for generic and new drugs. The complete document can be viewed here, but we will highlight some of what we believe might be the most […]
