On September 13, 2019 FDA issued a final guidance document The Special 510(k) Program (“Guidance”). We blogged about the prior draft guidance here. This Guidance, along with The Abbreviated 510(k) Program, supersedes the 1998 guidance document The New 510(k) Paradigm – Alternate Approaches to Demonstrating …
Following the recent trend of state intervention where federal legislative action has failed, California passed a bill last week discouraging patent infringement settlements that delay drug competition. Pay-for-delay settlements or “reverse-payment agreements” arise when the RLD-sponsor pays the putative generic sponsor to drop any Paragraph …
On August 29, 2019, the Center for Science and Public Interest (CSPI) and Consumer Reports (CR) submitted a Petition to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of USDA concerning FSIS labeling requirements for meat and poultry products, such as bacon, hot dogs, and pepperoni, …
FDA published a statement on September 9, 2019, linking to an article by Janet Woodcock and others concerning reporting of adverse events involving compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) products, including ingredients such as progesterone and testosterone. FDA states there were over 4,200 adverse events …
On September 9, 2019, FDA issued a final guidance, Acceptance Review for De Novo Classification Requests. The guidance is meant to provide clarity on the Agency’s expectations for information to be submitted in a De Novo request and to ensure predictability and consistency for sponsors. …
On September 5, 2019, FDA published its proposal to amend its Section 503A bulk substances regulation, 21 C.F.R. § 216.23, to add five bulk drug substances that FDA considered to the Section 503A Bulks List, and not to add 26 substances. Prior to this latest …
After the D.C. District Court released its decision, blogged about here, affirming FDA’s revised bulks nomination process and FDA’s removal of vasopressin from the Section 503B bulks list, FDA touted the court’s favorable decision in a press release here. Still basking in the wake of …
Claiming that DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine) is a “constituent” of geraniums, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. sold DMAA as a dietary supplement, in products intended for body-builders. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized the products, claiming that DMAA is a food additive because it is not generally recognized …
Fall is in the air. We know that not only beacuse the kids are off to school and the Summer heat is tailing off, but because of the uptick in questions we field on a daily basis concerning user fees under both the Prescription Drug …
The last time we blogged on news from a recent pharmaconference.com industry conference about current Good Manufacturing Practice (“GMP by the Sea,” agenda linked here), we provided some cute references to corn pudding recipes (blogpost linked here). Despite universally positive feedback about those culinary diversions, …
In a September 2018 post, we observed that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) had come to a fork in the road with respect to DEA’s August 12, 2016 policy statement that it would be accepting applications and would in fact issue additional marijuana manufacturer registrations …
On August 19, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Center for Environmental Health (CEH) filed suit against the FDA. According to the two consumer groups, FDA has failed to promulgate final regulations and complete actions by mandatory deadlines set by the Food Safety Modernization …
Companies challenging FDA in court typically face a steep uphill battle given the long-standing doctrine known as Auer deference, which (in simplified terms) requires courts to defer to FDA’s interpretation of its own regulations if they are ambiguous. The recent Supreme Court ruling in Kisor …
In the August 21 split panel decision issued in Federal Trade Commission v. Credit Bureau Center LLC, the Seventh Circuit held that section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTCA”), 15 U.S.C. § 53(b), does not authorize an award of restitution. In overturning its …
At the cGMP conference sponsored by pharmaconference.com earlier this month, FDA’s compliance wing encouraged pharmaceutical companies to ensure that they demonstrate “quality maturity,” and offered specifics about what FDA wants to see. Like my grandmother used to say this time of year about the best …
