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FDA Sort-of Commits to Meet with Generic Drug Manufacturers that Have Received Warning Letters

FDA Law Blog

As predicted in an earlier blogpost , FDA last week released a draft guidance that provides a pathway for generic drug manufacturers to secure a meeting with FDA so that affected companies can get answers to their questions in these circumstances.

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Health Canada’s proposed amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations and the Medical Devices Regulations

Pharma in Brief

On July 31, 2021, Health Canada published a Notice of Intent outlining its plan to amend the Food and Drug Regulations ( FDR ) and the Medical Devices Regulations in the spring of 2022. Generic drugs and biosimilars are not eligible for this application pathway. Biologic Drugs. Food and Drugs Act , R.S.C.,

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Warnings for Japanese pharmaceutical market may lead to more lenient price controls

Pharmaceutical Technology

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has introduced a series of pricing regulations to reduce the national health insurance (NHI)-listed drug prices, including the implementation of annual off-year price revisions.

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FDA Denies Vanda’s Citizen Petitions Regarding the Need for Braille Labeling for Tasimelteon Generics

FDA Law Blog

Vanda requested that FDA revoke the approval of Apotex’s and Teva’s generic versions of Hetlioz on the grounds that the generic tasimelteon products did not meet the statutory “same labeling” requirement for generic drugs found in 21 U.S.C. § FDA regulations, at 21 C.F.R. 355(j)(2)(A)(v). patients in harm’s way.”

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Warnings for Japanese pharmaceutical market may lead to more lenient price controls

Pharmaceutical Technology

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has introduced a series of pricing regulations to reduce the national health insurance (NHI)-listed drug prices, including the implementation of annual off-year price revisions.

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Pharma in Brief: The 2021 Year in Review

Pharma in Brief

These policy initiatives included reforms to the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ( PMPRB ), the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance Regulations) ( PM(NOC) Regulations ), the Patent Rules , and other regulatory matters at Health Canada. Proposed amendments to the PM(NOC) Regulations were also introduced in 2021.

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Drug labeling authority, UDI program reviewed by Harvard-based researchers

The Pharma Data

These initiatives could support insurance coverage of previously off-label uses, prevent costly new drugs from inappropriately receiving preferential regulatory treatment that is intended for drugs with no FDA-approved alternatives, and better inform clinicians by providing evidence-based information about how drugs should be used,” they noted. .

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