The American Conference Institute’s (“ACI”) popular FDA Boot Camp, now in its 28th iteration, is slated to take place at the Omni Parker House in Boston, Massachusetts from September 22-23, 2016. The conference is billed as the premier event to provide folks with a roadmap …
By Kurt R. Karst – Like the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain each Summer, we wait with bated breath each July and August to see how FDA-regulated companies might get gored when FDA releases the user fee rates for the next fiscal year. Over …
By Kurt R. Karst – Late last week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a 57-page Memorandum Opinion handing FDA a victory on the scope of 3-year new clinical investigation exclusivity. The decision came in a case …
By Jennifer D. Newberger – With less than two months to go before the UDI compliance date for Class II devices, on July 26, 2016, FDA issued a draft guidance related to what would seem to be the most basic of concepts: the form and content …
By Dara K. Levy – The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which went into effect for FDA-regulated products on June 15, 2016 (after several delays), is an electronic system operated by Customs and intended to automate import processing and expedite reviews for electronic import filings. It replaces …
By John A. Gilbert Jr. & Alan M. Kirschenbaum – On Friday, July 22, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (“CARA” or “Act”) of 2016, which is intended to help reverse the serious prescription drug abuse trend in the United …
By Kurt R. Karst – We recently posted on an orphan drug clinical superiority precedent we came across: PURIXAN (mercaptopurine) Oral Suspension, 20 mg/mL, for the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in pediatric patients. It’s the sixth “greater safety” orphan drug clincial superiority precedent we know …
By McKenzie E. Cato* and Jeff N. Gibbs – As we reported previously (see previous post here), FDA has issued two long-awaited draft guidances on next generation sequencing (NGS) diagnostic tests. The first, “Use of Standards in FDA Regulatory Oversight of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)-Based In Vitro …
By Riëtte van Laack – Last week, FTC announced a settlement agreement with Herbalife International of America Inc., Herbalife International, Inc. and Herbalife Ltd. (Herbalife) under which Herbalife is to pay 200 million dollars and restructure its business (see FTC press release here). In the Complaint …
By Karla L. Palmer – FDA posted a “Notice” on July 12, 2016, advising compounding pharmacies regulated under Section 503A that, effective August 1, 2016, FDA is changing inspection procedures for Section 503A pharmacies (see Notice here). FDA announced that it now will make a “preliminary assessment” whether compounders …
By Riette van Laack and Ricardo Carvajal – On Thursday July 14, the House approved legislation authorizing USDA to establish and administer a National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The bill, S.764, was previously approved by the Senate. The bill had been promoted as an urgent and necessary compromise by …
By Mark I. Schwartz – The Mutual Reliance Initiative was announced by FDA a couple of years back. It has as its goal “…to increase…[FDA’s]…exchange, with the European Commission and the European Medicines Agency, of information that is critical to making decisions that protect our public …
by Alan Kirschenbaum and Michelle Butler On July 14, 2016, CMS issued a release to manufacturers regarding value-based purchasing (VBP) arrangements. The purpose of the release is to (1) inform manufacturers how to seek guidance from CMS regarding the impact such arrangements might have on the …
By Karla L. Palmer FDA published for comment two non-binding draft guidance documents addressing compounding of commercially available drug products by traditional pharmacies under FDCA Section 503A and outsourcing facilities under Section 503B. [Section 503A Draft Guidance is HERE, blogged separately] and Section 503B Guidance is …
By David C. Gibbons & Jeffrey N. Wasserstein – The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently issued an unpublished Opinion in United States v. LeBeau, No. 16-1289, 2016 WL 3619838 (7th Cir. July 5, 2016), a case in which the pro se …
