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Common pharma compliance concerns cited by FDA warning letters

European Pharmaceutical Review

A study of the causes of warning letters issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) between 2010 and 2020 revealed that poor current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance and misbranding were the most common citations.

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Can holograms help in the frontline fight against pharmaceutical counterfeiting?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Indeed, a 2020 operation coordinated by Europol across 27 countries led to the seizure of more than 25 million units of counterfeit anticancer drugs and erectile dysfunction medicines among other fake drugs worth nearly €73 million. Elsewhere, holographic labels have been deployed effectively to arrest declining sales of pharmaceuticals.

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Pharmacovigilance deep dive: risk minimisation measures

European Pharmaceutical Review

The sampling strategy must be supported by sound and properly cited sources whose conclusions must be presented as supportive elements in the study documents. The following four elements of sampling methodology were found to be under-documented in RMM effectiveness studies: Supporting documentation for country/region selection.

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Trial bias concern scuppers Y-mAbs brain cancer drug in FDA vote

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The FDA refused to accept Y-mAbs’ first regulatory filing for the drug in 2020, but awarded the company’s second attempt a priority review earlier this year.

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FDA Publishes Proposal to Redefine the Implied Nutrient Contain Claim “Healthy” Changing Focus to Foods Rather than Nutrients Adding Limits on Added Sugar Content

The FDA Law Blog

In 2015, FDA issued a Warning Letter to Kind LLC because, among other things, the company labeled products as healthy whereas these products provided more saturated fat per serving than permitted by the regulatory definition. It is focused on the nutrients in the food product rather than on it overall nutritional “quality.”.

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To 513(g) or not to 513(g)? That is the question

The FDA Law Blog

Provided that a brief device description, clear intended use, and list or picture of all labeling claims are made, FDA aims to review the information and provide a response generally within 7 days. Sometimes, though, there is no clear precedent, and the product’s regulatory status falls into an undiscovered country.

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FDA adcomm votes down Cytokinetics heart failure drug

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The top-line result wasn’t backed up by overall mortality data however, viewed as being crucial to the take-up of the drug if approved, and Amgen ducked out of the alliance shortly after the results were made public towards the end of 2020. There was also no impact on quality-of-life measures.

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