Regulatory Authority Actions

FDA issued a warning letter to Cixi Zhixin Bird Clean-Care Product Co., Ltd for violations of cGMP for finished pharmaceuticals.

Reducing regulatory roadblocks requires more than the stroke of a pen.

User fee reauthorization is crucial to implementing the Cures Act and refining the approval process.

The agency recommended approval of a total of eight drugs at its January 2017 meeting, two of which are biosimilars.

The agency finds repeated CGMP violations at Porton Biopharma, Limited.

FDA’s Office of Regional Affairs aims to implement Program Alignment initiative by May 15, 2017.

A study by EMA shows that drugs that received conditional marketing authorization gave patients earlier access to needed medications.

FDA cites Sato Yakuhin Kogyo Co., Ltd. with data integrity violations after a June 2016 inspection of its Kashihara City facility.

A new report from HBM Partners said FDA new molecular entity approvals have dropped to 19 in 2016 from 45 in 2015.

The agency published an overview of marketing authorizations made in 2016.

A new FDA Q&A document released on Jan. 12, 2016 describes 180-day exclusivity for generic-drug manufacturers and explains the number of conditions under which an abbreviated new drug applicant (ANDA) submitting a paragraph IV certification would forfeit eligibility to be the authorized generic manufacturer of a drug.

EDQM outlines the steps it will take to implement the ICH Q3D guideline on elemental impurities.

In a blog post, Robert Califf and Rita Nalubola discuss the agency’s approach to the use of genome-edited products.

FDA published a flurry of guidance documents in late 2016.

The agency plans on publishing more than 100 new or revised guidance documents in 2017.

Language surrounding regenerative medicine and the REGROW Act appeared back into the 21st Century Cures Act right before it passed. What will this mean for the controversial testing and marketing of stem-cell therapies?

The company was cited by FDA for violations of sterile processing GMPs.

FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 22 new molecular entities (NMEs) in 2016, according to a January 4, 2016 release from the agency. Of the 22 NMEs, 12 were large-molecule therapeutics. Of CDER’s 45 novel drug approvals in 2015, 17 were considered large-molecule therapeutics (larger than 900 Daltons).In 2016, 11 of the 12 large-molecule drugs that were approved were biologics. This includes seven monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), one hormone, and three DNA-derived medications. The remaining large-molecule medication was a diagnostic agent.

The agency put Baoying County Fukang Medical Appliance Co., Ltd. on import alert after observing violations at the company’s Yangzhou City facility.

A pilot project, beginning in 2017, will support the development of biosimilars.

Emergent signed a follow-up contract to provide 29.4 million doses of BioThrax to the Strategic National Stockpile.

The agency announces that 81 medicines overall were recommended in 2016.

The commission concluded its P4Bio pilot phase with the adoption of the monograph for etanercept.

FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research makes plans for implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act that include patient-focused drug development.

Congress enacted the 21st Century Cures legislation, which shores FDA operations and supports biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health.