By Anne Marie Murphy – We previously reported on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (“CPSIA”), which makes sweeping changes to the laws enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). CPSIA Section 102(a), paragraph (1), amends the Consumer Product Safety Act (“CPSA”) to require …
By Jamie K. Wolszon – On January 22, Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Physician Payments Sunshine Act of 2009, which would require drug, biologic, medical device, and other medical supply manufacturers to disclose to the Secretary of Health and Human …
By Kurt R. Karst – Those following the subject of preemption of conflicting state laws have speculated for months whether the Obama Administration might undo the position FDA has advanced in Federal Register announcements and in court filings in which the Agency has generally staked …
By Anne Marie Murphy – As we have reported previously, Title VIII of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (“FDAAA”) amended the Public Health Service Act (“PHS Act”) by adding new section 402(j), 42 U.S.C. § 282(j), which greatly expands the types …
By Carrie S. Martin & Anne Marie Murphy – As we have previously reported, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (“CPSIA”) makes a number of changes to the laws enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). Among those changes are new limits on …
By Alan M. Kirschenbaum – Today’s Federal Register announces FDA’s issuance of a final “Guidance for Industry on Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and Approved or Cleared Medical …
Kurt R. Karst of Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. (and co-chief blogger of FDALawBlog.net) will be speaking at two upcoming conferences on various Hatch-Waxman Act product lifecycle management issues. The first conference is the Center for Business Intelligence’s Premier Bio/Pharmaceutical Summit on Legal & Regulatory …
By Kurt R. Karst – Last week, ViroPharma Inc. announced that the company filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that FDA has “wrongfully withheld agency records requested by [ViroPharma] by failing to comply with the statutory time limit for …
By Jamie K. Wolszon – FDA’s recent decision to require a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (“REMS”) for two prescription oral sodium phosphate (“OSP”) products raises questions regarding the impact the agency’s evolving application of its new REMS authority will have in instances where both …
By John R. Fleder & Kurt R. Karst – On December 10, 2008, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago dismissed a federal False Clams Act qui tam action in U.S. ex rel. Kennedy v. Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. involving allegations of off-label …
By Kurt R. Karst – Earlier today, by a five-to-four vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against preemption in Altria Group, Inc. Good, the so-called “light cigarette” case. Background on the case is available via the SCOTUS Wiki. The respondents in the case (i.e., Good …
By Kurt R. Karst – We previously reported on concerns as to whether a company submitting an ANDA (or a 505(b)(2) application) containing the results of an in vivo bioequivalence study must certify on Form FDA 3674 that new Public Health Service Act (“PHS Act”) …
By Anne Marie Murphy – We have previously reported on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (“CPSIA”) (here, here, and here), which makes a number of changes to the laws enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). Section 102(a)(1) of the CPSIA …
By Jeffrey N. Wasserstein, Alan M. Kirschenbaum & Bryon F. Powell – On December 10, 2008, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (Department) issued proposed regulations pursuant to Mass. Gen. L. § 111N, which requires the Department to promulgate regulations that adopt a standard marketing code …
By Cassandra A. Soltis – FDA has posted on its web site two revised draft guidance documents (here and here) concerning the labeling requirements of dietary supplements and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs under the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act of 2006. That Act …
