Ever have a great idea and then do nothing about it? Well, our guest blogger Christopher Palombo, CEO, the Dispensary of Hope and his team not only had a great idea but are doing something about it. Below, Chris explains their mission and where they are today and where they hope to be in the […]
After years of internal FDA debate, the FDA issued a guidance yesterday which was designed to assist an ANDA applicant in “determining when an application for a synthetic peptide drug product (synthetic peptide) that refers to a previously approved peptide drug product of recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) origin (peptide of rDNA origin) should be submitted […]
It appears that FDA may be close to issuing a less onerous version of its July 2014 Draft Interim GMP Guidance for Section 503B Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facilities. Reuters reported last week that in an interview with FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, the Commissioner stated that to encourage more firms to register as compounding outsourcing facilities […]
The ISPE has issued a GAMP: Records and Data Integrity guide which provides principles and practical guidance on meeting current expectations for the management of GxP regulated records and data, ensuring that they are complete, consistent, secure, accurate and available throughout their lifecycle. A critical component of the data lifecycle is Data Review. Data review […]
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 […]
Looks like FDA is nearing the end of the daunting task of developing and (soon hopefully) publishing a “Difficult to Compound List” that has been in the works for nearly 17 years. At a meeting on July 13 and 14, 2000, an advisory committee on compounding (specifically, the Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee [PCAC]) provided FDA […]
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 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 […]
The USP is planning to revise their USP<1058> Analytical Instrument Qualification Chapter, August 01, 2017. The planned principal changes to USP<1058> are as follows: The revised USP chapter introduces the concept of a user-driven risk assessment to establish the level of integrated instrument qualification to demonstrate “fitness for purpose” of the instrument. In addition, the […]
On Thursday as I was giving a talk to a firm about the abuse-deterrent drug landscape and potential for the future, the firm that makes and markets Opana ER was announcing that it was agreeing to remove its product from the marketplace in accord with the FDA recommendations. During the presentation, I was asked by […]
