A Federal Register notice published on March 26, 2021 announced the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Monograph User Fee rates for the Agency’s newest UFA, OMUFA, 2021. There are two types of user fees; one is for facilities of firms that manufacture and distribute OTC products (monograph drug facilities (MDFs)) and the other is for a subset of […]
March came in like a lion and looks to be going out like a lamb. With seven reporting days left, we counted forty-nine approval actions and four tentative approval actions for the OGD. These numbers are tempered a bit by the fact that (as we have mentioned previously) the OGD reports every action it takes […]
Once an approved NDA product is discontinued from marketing or withdrawn, the FDA must make a determination that the reason for such action by the innovator was not for safety or efficacy reasons (see 21 CFR 314.161(a)). Such a determination must be made before an ANDA for a duplicate of the reference listed drug (RLD) […]
For those of you that are not directly in the pharmaceutical industry or who are not healthcare providers, you may wonder why the FDA is having a meeting to discuss the morphine milligram equivalents for other opioids. Well, I know that measure gives healthcare providers a good idea of how to transition patients taking morphine […]
With the number of emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for drugs, devices, and biologics numbering in the hundreds and the relaxed enforcement policy on certain OTC products, the Agency will have a lot to do once the pandemic is over. FDA will need to decide whether to grant final clearance or approval to a ton of […]
I must admit that the explosion in the CBD market surprised me. The Warning Letters have also been flying off of the computers at FDA with most addressing drug claims for such products. Maybe I have not seen this before in a Warning Letter, but the argument made in recent FDA Warning Letters regarding CBD […]
The unofficial approval-action numbers for ANDAs improved a bit from last month’s seventy, with the OGD hitting a total of full- and tentative-approval actions of seventy-eight. This breaks down to seventy‑two full-approval actions and six tentative-approval actions. These numbers are as of the morning of March 5, 2021 from the FDA’s All Approvals list (here). […]
The Office of Generic Drugs updated its Generic Drugs Program Activities Report – Monthly Performance for January (here) to fill in more data on various metrics. As you know, the Agency typically comes out with the number of ANDA approval and tentative-approval actions and receipts of original ANDAs, along with the number of complete response […]
FDA has proposed some relief from the component shortages created for parenteral and other products identified in the just released Guidance entitled, COVID-19 Container Closure System and Component Changes: Glass Vials and Stoppers. The Agency has recognized the need to provide some regulatory flexibility regarding the filing type for certain changes that may be necessitated […]
On January 14, 2020, we posted a blog (here) concerning a Drug Safety Communication discussing FDA’s concern that the drug product Belviq or Belviq XR (lorcaserin) could increase the risk of cancer. On September 16, 2020, we posted a blog noting FDA’s final action withdrawing the 2 NDA drug applications for the product mentioned above […]
