In a prepublication notice in the Federal Register published today (here), the FDA indicates that, since the COVID 19 pandemic has resulted in the declaration of a public health emergency by the President, and, through the regulatory authority given to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the FDA will expedite important guidance on COVID […]
Contract Pharma recently published an article addressing some valuable tips to make your trip along the regulatory pathway to report manufacturing changes easier. The author, Amy Schutte, Senior Associate, Regulatory Practice of Lachman Consultants says, “Change is inevitable, continuous, and reportable to the FDA when we are talking about approved human or animal drugs.” Specifically, […]
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, FDA released guidance on March 14, 2020 allowing state licensed pharmacies, compounders, and certain federal facilities (referred to collectively as compounders) to manufacture hand sanitizers. In this guidance, FDA indicated that they are aware of people making their own sanitizers due to the shortage of sanitizers on the market, […]
Being in the pharmaceutical business, we are all aware of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requirements for child-resistant containers. We know that CPSC now regulates such child-resistant closures (CRCs), but the FDA requires firms to certify that the packages they claim to be child-resistant meet the CPSC regulations as well. Most of us think […]
FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hann’s piece on the FDA website (here) provided, I believe, a very realistic view of what one might call a runaway CBD industry (if you read between the lines). “The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 – which, among other things, changed federal law so that cannabis and cannabis derivatives with very […]
Because we know that information regarding approval actions of original ANDAs is critical to the industry, we track them as closely as we possibly can in order to give the readers the latest information. The full approval and tentative approval actions are the lifeblood of the industry. February 2020 continues on the lower end, and […]
For those of us in regulated industry, we all treat guidance from FDA with as much reverence as the tablets that Moses carried down from Mt Sinai. However, for those of us who are not employed by FDA, the processes underlying the issuance of these guidances is very opaque and mysterious, and, for those involved […]
While it is no surprise, the prepublication notice in the Federal Register today (here) announces the withdrawal of the FDA guidance Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency Drug Products–Submitting New Drug Applications. The announcement comes just 19 days prior to the date when these products can no longer be submitted as an NDA. Remember, FDA had noted in […]
Well, here we are in 2020, almost halfway through GDUFA II, and what do we know? We know that the OGD expects approvals to slow down, but original ANDAs to begin to fill up the system again. We have already seen the slowdown in approvals and, according to the OGD, this is likely to continue […]
Daraprim (pyrimethamine) Tablets 25 mg first made news in 2015 when Martin Shkreli (also known as “the most hated man in America” and “Pharma Bro”) was the head of Turing Pharmaceuticals and raised the price of this NDA drug product some 5,000%, from $13.50 a tablet to $750 a tablet. (Shkreli was charged in federal […]
