Just look around, watch the television, read the newspaper, and what do you see? Seems like very few reasons to be thankful. School and workplace shootings, the political scene is as nasty as I ever remember in my 70 years on earth. Climate change is threatening the future of our children, and the environmental controls […]
We are living in a world that is constantly changing and using forms of media such as videos and live recordings as forms of communication, notification, training and archiving of special events. In this age, we are constantly bombarded with Tweets, G-Chats and Facebook posts that have videos attached. We can stream tv shows, live […]
This post was co-authored by Thu Truong, J.D., Senior Associate, Science and Technology Group, and Ron George, Ph.D, Director, Science and Technology Group Prior to USP 42 – NF 37 (effective April 30, 2019), USP Chapter <197>, Spectroscopy Identification Tests, stated, “The IR absorption spectrum of a substance, compared with that obtained concomitantly for the […]
A podcast/article written by LCDR Rinku Patel, Pharm.D., Patent & Exclusivity Team, Office of Generic Drugs Policy, provides a description of the Competitive Generic Therapies program (which we have described previously here and here). Since we have covered the program in detail and there is an FDA draft Guidance available (here), we will not go […]
The FDA’s recently published draft guidance titled Development of Therapeutic Protein Biosimilars: Comparative Analytical Assessment and other Quality-Related Considerations (here) is a significant improvement over the withdrawn 2012 guidance (i.e., Quality Considerations in Demonstrating Biosimilarity to a Reference Protein Product) that it replaced. The increased level of detail and wider breadth of topics gives a […]
To all of our readers – Have a happy holiday season and a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year. The Lachman blog will be taking a break over the holiday starting Friday, December 21st (unless something extremely urgent occurs) and I hope that all of you will rejoin me in the New Year as […]
Every year at this time, we all ponder and are asked about what we are thankful for. It goes without saying, family, good health for all we love and peace on earth. We are all blessed in some way or another and we all have that one thing that stands out. Make your standout thing […]
The FDA issued its quarterly report on the progress of the generic drug program today and it provides a further look into the mean and median times for approvals for ANDAs. The bounce in mean and median approval times, both up and down, relate to the specific approval cohort of the ANDAs to which the […]
On April 16th we posted a story (here) on the FDA guidance document titled Highly Concentrated Caffeine in Dietary Supplements (here). That post detailed the FDA’s position on highly concentrated caffeine powder and liquid products sold to the consumer and the potential public health issues that they present. In that guidance, the FDA also discussed […]
The Office of Generic Drugs (ODG) saw the largest number of changes being effected (CBE) supplements (618) as well the largest number of prior approval supplements (PAS) (57) so far, this fiscal year. While these numbers did not break any previous records (678 CBEs in September 2016 and 71 PAS in August 2016) they certainly […]
