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Dormant drug status can trigger generic access to an alternate Canadian Reference Product

Pharma in Brief

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]”.

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In the News: October Regulatory and Development Updates

Camargo

Presumably, Antares’ long-established 90-person urology sales force can achieve pull-thru of this drug product. Labeling regulations prohibit reminder ads for products with boxed warnings, which the FDA requires when a drug product has very serious risks.

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Quality by design with a focus on biosimilars

Pharmaceutical Technology

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.

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog

Even more definitively, FDA wrote: Thus, when the BPCI Act was passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law on March 23, 2010, the statutory term “strength” in section 505(j)(2)(A)(iii) of the FD&C Act had an existing, well-established administrative meaning that reflected both the total drug content (e.g.,

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Biosimilars vs. Interchangeable Biological Products: FDA Fact Check

XTalks

In order to fact-check some of these misconceptions, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently hosted a webinar on biosimilar and interchangeable biological products to help healthcare professionals understand more about these treatment options. Biosimilars are the “genericdrugs of the biopharma world.

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The Mesh of the Generics and the Potential of Emerging Therapies in the Smoking Cessation Market

Delveinsight

The USFDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research regulates and ensures the safety and effectiveness of these products. Moreover, the generic drugs of Zyban are also approved, while for Chantix, its patent is soon going to expire in 2021 in the EU and in 2022 in Japan. Generics in the Market.

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Do generics producers have what it takes to tackle complex and specialty drugs?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The only way forward for generics producers. Margins in the generics market are overall being driven down, Harvard Medical School Health Economics professor Richard Frank, PhD, tells Pharmaceutical Technology. “You Regulatory applications for generic drugs can be submitted through different pathways , based on their characteristics.

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