Yes, you heard me right; after years of problems caused by those pesky pH adjusters, there is a way around the regulations (and by the way this avenue has always been available for the Agency to utilize). In a pre-publication of the Federal Resister (here), the FDA says “an ANDA applicant for a drug product […]
For the first time in two years, a number of Lachman Consultants Team were able to attend the PDA Annual conference in Dallas, Texas this week. At this meeting, there was an opportunity for many of the PDA Interest Groups (IGs) to have face-to-face discussions that had, for the last two years been virtual due […]
We were close with our estimates for February approval actions, but the FDA reported one fewer full-approval action than we did (fifty-nine vs. sixty) and, upon review, note that it was because one of the ANDAs was listed in a separate line item as an action. Sorry we missed that! Of the fifty-nine full-approval actions, […]
The FDA released a summary table from a study report that was designed to help applicants for extended-release (ER) and delayed-release (DR) products; the FDA is aware of the types of deficiencies that are being seen and is making an effort increase the first-cycle approval rate for these products. The report summary (here) covers 186 […]
In the prepublication of the Federal Register today, the FDA asked for comments on issues related to trying to reduce the confusion on maximum daily intake (MDI) and maximum daily exposure (MDE) limits in its Inactive Ingredient Database (IID). The industry uses the IID to identify the level of inactive ingredients that may be safely […]
The FDA published the OTC User Fee rates for FY 2022 today These rates were announced this morning in a Federal Register notice (here) and cover fees for OTC manufacturing facilities, contract manufacturing organizations (CMO), and OTC monograph order requests (OMOR) for which there are tier 1 and tier 2 requests. A comparison of the FY […]
I believe everyone likes seeing the progress of ANDA approval actions, and hold that as the primary measure of success of OGD. I know that has been the case ever since Hatch-Waxman was implemented in November of 1984. So I continue to track this metric very closely and at least through the morning of March […]
In an FDA announcement today titled Approved First Generic for Apokyn Injection Cartridges Requires Separately Packaged Pen (here), the Agency noted that this is the first generic approved without a delivery device. While I am aware of other FDA approvals where an off-the-shelf autoinjector was available to inject a prefilled syringe (that can be procured […]
In a twist that I am sure the FDA did not see coming, the landscape of FDA’s compounding position and the use of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the FDA and the States took a hit in a court decision back in “October 2020, [when] FDA was sued in the U.S. District Court for […]
In the prepublication edition of the Federal Register, the proposed rule on revisions to the Quality System Regulation was published today and may be found here. According to the notice, the Agency “is proposing to amend the device current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements of the Quality System (QS) Regulation to align more closely with […]
