On January 5, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Florida’s proposal under the Section 804 Importation Program (SIP) to allow Florida to proceed to the next steps in the regulatory process to import...more
In December 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued nine Warning Letters for the manufacture and distribution of unapproved over-the-counter (OTC) antimicrobial animal drugs for use in aquarium fish and...more
On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new program for entities using or developing advanced manufacturing technologies that is intended to expedite development and assessment of applications for...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published a guidance for immediate implementation, Enhanced Drug Distribution Security Requirements Under Section 582(g)(1), that provides a one-year reprieve from certain...more
In August 2022, the European Commission published a revision to Annex 1 “Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal Products” in EudraLex - Volume 4 - Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines that will significantly impact...more
Starting April 1, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin accepting requests to participate in a new Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) Development and Readiness Pilot (CDRP) program to provide...more
On June 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the long-awaited proposed rule “Nonprescription Drug Product with an Additional Condition for Nonprescription Use” (ACNU), which would could expand the...more
On May 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) published the draft guidance “Risk Management Plans to Mitigate the Potential for Drug Shortages,” which aims to assist drug manufacturers in complying with...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the final guidance, “Pre-Launch Activities Importation Requests (PLAIR),” describing its policy regarding requests for the importation of unapproved finished...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the proposed rule, “National Standards for the Licensure of Wholesale Drug Distributors and Third-Party Logistics Providers,” which aims to improve the security...more
Pursuant to Executive Order 14017, issued by President Biden on 24 February 2021, a federal government task force examined the vulnerabilities in America’s supply chains for semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging,...more
6/11/2021
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On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had announced that the Department was terminating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Marketed Unapproved Drugs Initiative (UDI). ...more
On April 27, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its first Notice of Noncompliance to a company for failing to submit required clinical trial summary results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. In...more
In last week's Federal Register, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated and reissued the rates for over-the-counter (OTC) monograph drug user fees for fiscal year (FY) 2021. This Federal Register Notice announces...more
On February 2, Hogan Lovells partners Melissa Bianchi, David Horowitz, and George Ingham presented a webinar to the Biotechnical Innovation Organization (BIO) on “What Biotech Employers Need to Know about COVID Vaccines and...more
2/16/2021
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On January 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued its fifth amendment to the Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (“PREP Act”) related to COVID-19...more
On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced that the Department was terminating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Marketed Unapproved Drugs Initiative (UDI)....more
Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons virtual event series -
The fast pace of innovation in the life sciences and health care industry has reached an all-time high in 2020 as the industry grapples with the new reality of...more
11/9/2020
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Regarding the Trump Administration’s August 6, 2020 “Buy American” Executive Order, which was the subject of a prior client alert, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it published a list of 223 drug and...more
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced policies intended to permit the importation of, and Medicaid reimbursement for, certain foreign prescription...more
Tuesday, 13 October 2020 -
The Hogan Lovells Government Relations and Public Affairs group is tracking all of the latest developments in the U.S. Congress and relevant news stories. President Trump and his aides on Friday...more
10/13/2020
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Earlier this year, we wrote about a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that, if upheld, would require companies to make public a decade of clinical trial results for products that have...more
On August 6, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump issued his much-anticipated "Buy American" Executive Order (EO), intended to increase and support domestic manufacture and Federal government procurement of "essential...more
8/10/2020
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) extended the enforcement discretion period for certain human cell, tissue, and cellular and tissue-based products (HCT/Ps) by an additional six months, citing the challenges...more
7/21/2020
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On June 25, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court that reverses the government’s prior position by arguing that none of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable...more
7/15/2020
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