At the AAM GRx+Biosims meeting last week in North Bethesda, Maryland, Ted Sherwood, Director of the Office of Regulatory Operations, Office of Generic Drugs, indicated that the negotiations for GDUFA III had led to a number of program enhancements in the generic drug review and approval processes. He outlined a number of these changes from GDUFA II […]
One of the closing sessions at the recent Association for Accessible Medicine’s GRx + Biosimilars conference covered Post-Approval Changes to Complex Generic Drugs. The session included presentations from multiple individuals from FDA, as well as from industry, to provide a breadth of perspective on this subject. As one would expect, the session did offer both […]
GDUFA III Raises Hopes for Surprise PSG Issuance/Revision Explained at AAM’s GRx-Biosims Conference The product specific guidance (PSG) has been a big help to industry in outlining the requirements for establishing bioequivalence requirements for generic drug products. OGD has issued over 2000 PSGs since the practice began. While this has been a big boon to […]
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 […]
For those of you in the OTC monograph world (not OTC products that require an approved NDA or ANDA application for marketing), this draft guidance document, titled Assessing User Fees Under the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program (here), will provide you with the how, what, and when information about facility fees for dosage-form manufacturers […]
The 2022 PDA Universe of Pre-Filled Syringes and Injection Devices conference was held in Palm Springs, CA, October 18-19, 2022. In attendance were some of the world’s largest providers in this combination space which included innovators, pharmaceutical companies, suppliers of injectable devices and contracted service providers. The conference speakers presented on a variety of topics […]
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 […]
For those facilities compounding drug products and distributing them out of state, the FDA has extended the statutory enforcement date. On the Federal Register prepublication page this morning, the Agency announced that it is “extending the period before FDA intends to begin enforcing the statutory 5 percent limit on distribution of compounded human drug products […]
As the pace of accelerated approvals has increased over the past few years, and as the number of withdrawals of accelerated approvals for some indications and products has also increased, the latest FDA move to seek removal of Makena, the premature birth preventative, for lack of efficacy could spell trouble for firms that cannot demonstrate […]
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 […]
