The Office of Generic Drugs is publishing thirty-one new and fifteen revised bioequivalence guidances according to the pre-publication notice that appeared in the Federal Register today (here). The official FR notice is scheduled to publish on September 17, 2019, but a quick check reveals that the new and revised guidance documents are already available today […]
OGD published their official approval actions for August and the Agency posted 66 full approval actions and 13 tentative approval actions in its Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2019) Monthly Performance (here). However, the FDA All Approvals list (here) for August lists 59 full approval actions and the correct number of tentative […]
Oh, the games that are played to keep market share are becoming more curious every day. Just check out this article from Drug Topics penned by Louis Tharp and Craig Burton entitled Generics and Biosimilars Facing Formulary Difficulties (here). When Hatch-Waxman was passed, there were attacks on the bioequivalence of generic drugs, the quality of […]
In a seven-page response, the FDA denied an April 10, 2019 petition asking the Agency to place a moratorium on the approval of any new opioid products. The petition by Public Citizen spoke of the public health opioid crisis and asked that the moratorium be continued “until FDA has implemented recommendations from the National Academies […]
According to all of the published approval data on the FDA All Approvals List (here) and the Drugs@FDA: FDA Approved Drug Products (here), the OGD has taken full-approval action on fifty-nine ANDAs and tentative approval action on twelve ANDAs for a total of seventy approval actions in August. But wait – there is something amiss! […]
The Office of Generic Drugs provided an update late last night to its Activities Report of the Generic Drugs Program (FY 2019) Monthly Performance (here). Not too many surprises, but there are a couple of numbers that are of interest. Let’s start with refuse-to-receive (RTR) actions. There were only two RTR actions in July (both […]
This morning after reading an article in the Pink Sheet entitled US FDA Urged To Stop Slowing Approvals By Seeking Metals Data From Suppliers written by Joanne S. Eglovitch, my mind harkened back to the early 2018 slowdown (and almost stop) in ANDA approvals based on the elemental impurities issue (see earlier post (here). The […]
I don’t know about you but has this year flown by or what? Summer will be over on Labor Day and there will be only one month left in FY 2019. OGD approval actions thru reporting on August 22 show OGD with 53 full approval actions and 11 tentative approval actions. Thus, it looks like […]
As I read the article “Prescription-drug policy: Don’t throw the bed out with bedpan”, written by Jim Waters in the Bluegrass Institute (here) about the “Pay-for-Delay issue, I harkened back to a position I took in a very old FTC law suit (that FTC won) and thought – well, someone else gets it! While I […]
It is paramount that a Quality Control laboratory has a calibration and preventative maintenance program for the laboratory instrumentation so that there is assurance that the instrumentation continues to be “fit for purpose” and that there is confidence in the accuracy and reliability of all analytical instruments. There should be a controlled, comprehensive list of […]
