As 2019 comes to an end, the United States Food & Drug Administration’s (“FDA” or the “Agency”) Center for Veterinary Medicine has published a new draft Guidance for Industry #256, “Compounding Animal Drugs from Bulk Drug Substances” (the “Draft Guidance”). The Draft Guidance addresses FDA’s regulatory approach to compounding animal drugs from bulk drug substances. … Continue Reading
The Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA” or the “Administration”) recently published a notice in the Federal Register (volume 84, number 189, pages 51368–51377) that the Administration is amending its regulations and issuing a final rule to implement not only a new single-sheet format for its DEA Form 222, but to improve the corresponding recordkeeping requirements for … Continue Reading
On October 2, 2019, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it awarded a cooperative agreement grant to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to establish an information-sharing system for drug compounding activities conducted in accordance with Section 503A of the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act (FDCA). With this … Continue Reading
On September 23, 2019, New York-based outsourcing facility Athenex, Inc. (Athenex) withdrew its appeal of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s ruling related to the United States Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) placement of Vasopressin on the Agency’s “clinical need” list. As may be recalled from our previous alert, Athenex sued FDA … Continue Reading
Just as the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) promised in its 2019 compounding priorities statement, FDA published a notice and proposed rule in the Federal Register in the past week related to bulk drug substances that can be compounded subject to the conditions of Section 503A and Section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, … Continue Reading
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Legal Council (OLC) released an opinion in May 2019 addressing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) jurisdiction over drugs used in capital punishment. A result of a request by the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, the OLC issued an opinion following years of conflict around the use of sodium … Continue Reading
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2019, “to obtain scientific data and information about the safety, manufacturing, product quality, marketing, labeling, and sale of products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived compounds.”1 This offers those within the cannabis industry a unique opportunity to speak on their concerns and interests … Continue Reading
Just prior to departing the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., and Deputy Commissioner Anna Abram issued a statement (the “Statement”) on the Agency’s 2019 goals to improve the quality of compounded drugs. While the change of leadership at the Agency may affect how these efforts will be managed and implemented, … Continue Reading
In accordance with the United States Food & Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) 2018 Compounding Policy Priorities Plan, on December 11, 2018, FDA published its revised draft guidance regarding human drug compounding by outsourcing facilities entitled, “Current Good Manufacturing Practice—Guidance for Human Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facilities Under Section 503B of the FD&C Act Guidance for Industry,” (the … Continue Reading
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced on November 7, 2017, that it is withdrawing the draft Guidance for Industry #230, “Compounding Animal Drugs from Bulk Drug Substances.” FDA confirmed that it does not intend to finalize the current draft. Rather, it will issue a new draft in early 2018 for public comment. For … Continue Reading
Chicago Partner Rachael Pontikes of Reed Smith’s Life Science Health Industry group will speak at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) Drug Quality Security Act Conference on November 15 in Washington D.C. The conference will include panels of government regulatory and industry experts discovering current issues surrounding the DQSA’s Title I Compounding Quality Act … Continue Reading
On September 26, 2017, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. released a statement about FDA’s ramped up regulatory initiatives for drug compounders. These initiatives include: (1) publishing a report that provides a list of all the drugs that outsourcing facilities have compounded; (2) publishing a guide entitled “Outsourcing Facility Information,” which is a compilation of key … Continue Reading
