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AstraZeneca and Nektar Therapeutics say they hope to market their newly approved opioid-induced constipation drug Movantik in early 2015, but the launch date remains uncertain as the Drug Enforcement Administration considers a request to deschedule the product. Read More
Manufacturers operating in Europe should report any product-quality defect to the drug application holders and individual EU regulatory bodies if the incident requires a recall or creates supply restrictions, according to a revised chapter of a European Commission guideline on good manufacturing practices. Read More
The FDA’s database of inactive drug ingredients needs a complete overhaul to better facilitate ANDA filings, say generics makers, that laid out a variety of other shortfalls they see in the agency’s generic drug approval process. Read More
New York’s attorney general has filed what may be a first-of-its-kind antitrust lawsuit against Actavis and subsidiary Forest Laboratories for seeking to switch patients on its Alzheimer’s drug Namenda to a newer formulation with longer lasting patents in order to stave off generic competition. Read More
Indian pharmaceutical authorities have collected only $62 million, or roughly 9 percent, of the $688 million they say drugmakers owe in fines for the overcharging of drugs. Read More
The FDA warned an active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer for not paying its facility user fees. However, the company says it hasn’t made APIs since 2008. Read More
Generic drugmakers submitting ANDAs that indicate impurities in proposed products that exceed established thresholds must provide detailed justification to avoid having the application rejected, the FDA said. Read More