Pharma in Brief
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
On January 26, 2024, Health Canada published a Notice concerning its application of the definition of Canadian Reference Product ( CRP ) in the Food and Drug Regulations ( Regulations ). For instance, the generic drug must be “the pharmaceutical equivalent of the [CRP]” and be “bioequivalent with the [CRP]”.
FDA Law Blog
MARCH 5, 2023
Koblitz — FDA uses its Product Specific Guidance documents (“PSGs”) to provide recommendations as to the bioequivalence testing necessary for approval of a generic drug. Indeed, PSGs help facilitate generic competition, and to date, OGD has published more than 2,000 PSGs.
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Camargo
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
When the FDA requires a product’s labeling to include a boxed warning (also called a “black box warning” because the text is surrounded by black border), the potential market value of the drug often drops severely. Presumably, Antares’ long-established 90-person urology sales force can achieve pull-thru of this drug product.
Pharmaceutical Technology
OCTOBER 28, 2022
To demonstrate bioequivalence for a generic small molecule drug, a company must carry out a Phase I clinical trial in healthy individuals to ensure that the area under the curve and maximum plasma concentration for their drug is equivalent to that of the brand name drug.
FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Relevant here, FDA interpreted in Guidance that a proposed injectable biosimilar must “demonstrate that its product has the same strength as the reference product by demonstrating that both products have the same total content of drug substance (in mass or units of activity) and the same concentration of drug substance.”
Drug Discovery World
AUGUST 22, 2023
In September 2021, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the initiation of a pilot programme 1 to provide parallel scientific advice to pharma companies applying for marketing authorisation for generic versions of hybrid products and complex generic drug products.
pharmaphorum
JANUARY 17, 2022
The man who sent the price of lifesaving drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine) rocketing from $13.50 Until recently, Daraprim was the only drug available to treat the disease and has been the gold standard treatment for toxoplasmosis for decades. a tablet to $750 overnight has been ordered to repay $64.6m (£47m).
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