The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses warning letters to notify manufacturers that they have violated the FDA’s regulations or federal law. Manufacturers that receive warning letters must respond promptly, and they...more
FDA recently published a Federal Register notice announcing a public listening session on good manufacturing practices (GMPs) for cosmetic products under the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA), which...more
Human health is a fundamental need of the society. The pharmaceutical industry has played a pivotal role in providing mankind with drugs for preventive and curative care. COVID-19 has further underscored the immense...more
Manufacturing sites should prepare now for inspections before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resumes routine on-site inspections. Since 2020, FDA has delayed many routine inspections due to the pandemic. In...more
Under FDA's leadership, the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) recently published Q13 draft guidelines on continuous manufacturing (CM) to advance the brand and generic drug industries ability to obtain approvals...more
ACI’s FDA Boot Camp returns in a completely interactive virtual format to help life sciences attorneys and executives to master the fundamentals of FDA Regulation... Gain essential working knowledge of core FDA concepts,...more
On September 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a temporary guidance, “Resuming Normal Drug and Biologics Manufacturing Operations During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency,” urging drug manufacturers to...more
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to impact the biopharmaceutical industry. In a recent guidance, Resuming Normal Drug and Biologics Manufacturing Operations During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (the...more
FDA recently published its “Good Manufacturing Practice Considerations for Responding to COVID-19 Infection in Employees in Drug and Biological Products Manufacturing Guidance for Industry” (“Guidance”) which provides...more
For over 15 years, ACI’s FDA Boot Camp has been the Training Grounds for Life Sciences Attorneys and Executives to Master the Fundamentals of FDA Regulation. Now the conference returns for its 37th iteration, in a fully...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community, including regular updates on legislative initiatives from AGG’s Washington, DC...more
The Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ) in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) within the US Food and drug Administration (FDA) published its annual “Report on the Sate of Pharmaceutical Quality” last week....more
Our Food, Drug & Device/FDA Group breaks down the new Food and Drug Administration guidance on data integrity for current good manufacturing practices (CGMPs) and what it means for the drug industry....more
Earlier yesterday, FDA published the final guidance “Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP: Questions and Answers,” which updates April 2016 draft guidance that covers the design, operation, and monitoring of systems...more
On November 9, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced that the agency launched new inspection protocols for aseptic processing of sterile drugs to be used by FDA investigators during surveillance and pre-approval...more
On Tuesday, FDA announced the entry of a consent decree of permanent injunction against Keystone Laboratories, Inc. of Memphis, Tennessee for manufacturing OTC hair care and skin care products in violation of Current Good...more
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Export Certificate office, a new online application. ...more
The Food and Drug Administration issued two Warning Letters recently to pharmaceutical manufacturers where lack of corporate oversight was an issue. These Warning Letters reaffirm that senior management cannot delegate or...more
When my children were younger, we played a little game about “who took the cookie from the cookie jar” – Who me? Yes, you. Couldn’t be. Then who? We’d turn to another family member and start the game all over again. ...more
Here we go again. The Food and Drug Administration issued a Warning Letter on December 13, 2017, to a Korean pharmaceutical company for non-compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements. What caught our eye...more
On January 11, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance document entitled “Current Good Manufacturing Practice Requirements for Combination Products.”[1] This guidance describes and explains...more
In late 2013, Congress passed the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) in response to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a sterile compounded injectable drug shipped across the country and responsible for more than...more