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Over the past week, the FDA issued proposed rules to classify certain types of wound dressings and liquid wound washes containing antimicrobials and/or other chemicals and to require premarket approval applications for certain solid wound dressings; wound dressings formulated as a gel, cream, or ointment and liquid wound washes containing antimicrobials with a high level of antimicrobial resistance. Read More
Namandje Bumpus, currently chief scientist for the FDA, will replace Janet Woodcock as principal deputy commissioner, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf announced Wednesday. Read More
AbbVie and ImmunoGen today announced an agreement under which AbbVie will acquire ImmunoGen, and its flagship cancer therapy Elahere (mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx) an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approved for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, accelerating AbbVie’s presence in the solid tumor space. Read More
Kilitch Healthcare India received an FDA Form 483 citing lack of sterility, incomplete laboratory records and inadequate laboratory controls, inadequate validation of aseptic processes and unclean and insanitary buildings following an eight-day October inspection of its Mumbai, Maharashtra sterile drug manufacturing facility. Read More
Novo Nordisk has filed complaints against two Florida-based compounding pharmacies for marketing unapproved versions of its semaglutide products, claiming the products are weaker in strength than labeling indicates and may contain up to 33 percent impurities. Read More
Upcoming events in the coming weeks and months include two FDA advisory committee meetings; MAGI 2024: The Clinical Research Conference; and webinars on medical device cybersecurity, overcoming common clinical trial challenges, supplier quality agreements and FDA inspections. Read More
After receiving reports of T-cell malignancies in patients who received treatment with BCMA- or CD19-directed autologous CAR-T cell immunotherapies, the agency has announced an investigation into the issue and is evaluating the need for regulatory action. Read More
This edition of Quick Notes highlights recalls for Excela sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride and cysteine hydrochloride, Novartis cyclosporin, Bayer larotrectinib, Unomedical VariSoft infusion sets and SoClean CPAP cleaner. Read More
FDA investigators found that visual inspectors manipulated particle and defect counts to keep finished products within rejection limits in a May 1-12 inspection of Intas Pharmaceuticals’ Ahmedabad facility, earning the company a warning letter and import alert. Read More