The 2023 Food and Drug Law Institute’s (“FDLI”) Enforcement, Litigation and Compliance Conference will boast two speakers from Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. (“HPM”), as well as other experts from FDA, DOJ, and the private sector. HPM Director Anne Walsh will moderate a panel discussion on “Due …
Although the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) has been around for over 50 years to “protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products,” it was not until 2008 that the statute was amended to authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) …
The word last week was that FDA is re-organizing the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). It is the latest item on a long list of similar initiatives that have marked 2023. Those efforts add up to …
We were preparing this blogpost about FDA’s draft guidance on “Remote Interactive Evaluations” when we learned something. A phone call to FDA requested information about the number of Remote Interactive Evaluations (RIEs) that FDA has performed at drug manufacturing facilities since it announced in April …
In our June blog post, we reported on FDA’s request for comments about its program to receive information from the public alleging misconduct by other companies. FDA uses this program to help it identify risks and to determine whether further investigation is needed. Because this …
As we reported last week, FDA has issued a 26 page, single spaced, tiny-font Proposed Rule of Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). There is much to unpack, and we intend to do so in a series of blog posts. In this post, we focus on the …
DOJ has issued another “voluntary disclosure” policy intended to encourage companies to disclose misconduct it discovers as part of a merger and acquisition. Under this new policy, a company will receive a “presumption of declination” of agency action – i.e., a safe harbor – if …
As readers of the FDA Law Blog know, the FDC Act is a strict liability criminal enforcement statute that can impose criminal misdemeanor penalties on a person without any showing of intent. See some of our prior posts, here, here, and here. If committed with …
A drug manufacturer’s bad post-inspection grade from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – labeled an “Official Action Indicated” classification – is generally devastating for the facility, not least because it can stall FDA approval of applications to market drugs manufactured at the facility. Many …
OPDP is coming out! On the heels of a nuanced and more complicated Warning Letter addressing CFL claims and statistical presentations comes a new Untitled Letter from OPDP going back to its roots! This most recent Untitled Letter to Exeltis alleges omission of risk information …
Well, if you, like many within industry, felt emboldened to disseminate promotional materials that may push the envelope on efficacy (so long as your risk information was tight) think again! OPDP is back in the game, letting all the people know that they are back …
Francis Godwin, Director of the Office of Manufacturing Quality of the Office of Compliance at FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research provided useful information (presentation attached here) Tuesday at the GMP by the Sea Conference. He talked about regulatory discretion being exercised for drug …
At the GMP by the Sea Conference ongoing in Cambridge, Maryland, a presentation was made by a representative of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research that shows some interesting trends in enforcement. Jennifer Maguire, the Director of the Office of Quality Surveillance within the Office …
On August 3rd, FDA issued 11 warning letters to foreign facilities registered as OTC drug manufacturers. For each of these facilities, FDA did not conduct an on-site inspection of the facility prior to issuing the warning letter. Instead, FDA issued a request for records pursuant …
Last fall, we blogged about the process FDA uses to review allegations of regulatory misconduct against device manufacturers, suggesting greater transparency on the FDA process was needed (see here). FDA now seeks comments on this very program to support its continued collection of information as …
