Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
In January 2025, various US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) centers and offices published their guidance agendas for the 2025 calendar year (CY). These agendas provide valuable insights into FDA’s regulatory priorities,...more
We recently posted on a new FDA draft guidance entitled “Postapproval Manufacturing Changes to Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products Questions and Answers,” aimed at providing “answers to commonly asked questions...more
Last month, the FDA issued draft guidance, which, if implemented, would remove a requirement for a switching study for demonstrating biosimilar interchangeability....more
On April 25, 2024, the FDA published a notice of availability in the Federal Register for its revised draft guidance, entitled “Promotional Labeling and Advertising Considerations for Prescription Biological Reference...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued new revised draft guidance on “Labeling for Biosimilar and Interchangeable Biosimilar Products,” which most notably dispenses with any recommendation that...more
In August 2023, the Food and Drug Administration issued two draft guidance, both related to the development of biosimilar products, entitled “Formal Meetings between the FDA and Sponsors or Applicants of BsUFA Products” and...more
In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued Final Guidance entitled "Questions and Answers on Biosimilar Development and the BPCI Act: Guidance for Industry," and Draft Guidance entitled "New and Revised Draft...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a draft guidance titled, “Benefit-Risk Assessment for New Drug and Biological Products,” which aims to provide a clearer understanding how a drug’s benefits, risks, and...more
As 2020 comes to a close, Big Molecule Watch once again reviews the top developments in the biologics and biosimilars space for 2020. Please keep an eye out this week for posts identifying the most important regulatory,...more
On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) released a Q&A-format draft guidance to address four questions regarding the submission of biologics license applications (BLAs) and labeling for...more
FDA has published new draft guidance for industry titled “Biosimilarity and Interchangeability: Additional Draft Q&As on Biosimilar Development and the BPCI Act.” ...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 and highlights articles from members of AGG outside the Food and Drug Practice. ...more
On February 3, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research issued jointly a draft guidance entitled, “Promotional Labeling and Advertising...more
Part of a New Joint Initiative with FTC to Deter Anti-Competitive Practices, Including False or Misleading Comparisons - On February 3, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released draft guidance providing...more
Continuing progress on the initiatives announced in its Biosimilars Action Plan in July 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released information about several important biosimilar-related actions on February 3, 2020....more
In 2019, Rx IP Update reported on a number of developments in Canadian life sciences IP and regulatory law. We review top developments below: 1) PMPRB: Amendments to Regulations will come into force July 1, 2020, court...more
On March 4, 2019 FDA announced the availability of a draft guidance titled Nonproprietary Naming of Biological Products: Update (“Naming Guidance”). According to FDA’s announcement the Naming Guidance reflects FDA’s current...more
On 19 February 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the agency) released a draft guidance entitled, "Nonbinding Feedback After Certain FDA Inspections of Device Establishments" (draft guidance) for comment. ...more
In a highly anticipated step, which had been teased by agency leadership in their public appearances over the past several months, FDA released a series of draft guidance documents pertaining to the development and approval...more
As we previously reported, in September 2017 FDA issued draft guidance entitled Statistical Approaches to Evaluate Analytical Similarity that “describes the type[s] of information a sponsor of a proposed biosimilar product...more
On June 5, 2018, the FDA released new draft guidance for the biosimilar industry. The draft guidance provides recommendations regarding the timing, scope and conduct of formal meetings between the FDA and applicants relating...more
This post, Part III, of a three-part series on FDA’s interchangeability draft guidance highlights a number of open issues that stakeholders have identified in their comments to FDA....more
This post, Part II, of a three-part series (Part I) on FDA’s interchangeability draft guidance, highlights the key issues that were raised in the stakeholder comments provided to FDA. FDA received 52 comments in total from a...more
The comment period for FDA’s draft guidance Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product closed on Friday, May 19, 2017. Innovators, biosimilar makers, patients, healthcare providers and other...more
On January 17, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its long-awaited draft guidance on licensure as an interchangeable biological product approved under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of...more