82_FR_46045 82 FR 45856 - Equivalence of Complex Products; Public Workshop; Request for Comments

82 FR 45856 - Equivalence of Complex Products; Public Workshop; Request for Comments

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 189 (October 2, 2017)

Page Range45856-45858
FR Document2017-21018

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing the following public workshop entitled ``Demonstrating Equivalence of Generic Complex Drug Substances and Formulations: Advances in Characterization and In Vitro Testing.'' The purpose of the workshop is to share FDA's current experiences on the evaluation and characterization of critical quality attributes for complex drug substances (e.g. polymeric and naturally derived substances and peptides) and formulations (e.g. liposomes, emulsions, suspensions, and polymeric inserts); discuss current and future innovative approaches for the development and regulatory review of equivalent complex drug products; obtain input from various stakeholders on how to conduct and assess critical quality attribute measurements to demonstrate equivalence of complex drug products; and request comments on these topics.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 189 (Monday, October 2, 2017)
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2017-N-5776]


Equivalence of Complex Products; Public Workshop; Request for 
Comments

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of public workshop; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is 
announcing the following public workshop entitled ``Demonstrating 
Equivalence of Generic Complex Drug Substances and Formulations: 
Advances in Characterization and In Vitro Testing.'' The purpose of the 
workshop is to share FDA's current experiences on the evaluation and 
characterization of critical quality attributes for complex drug 
substances (e.g. polymeric and naturally derived substances and 
peptides) and formulations (e.g. liposomes, emulsions, suspensions, and 
polymeric inserts); discuss current and future innovative approaches 
for the development and regulatory review of equivalent complex drug 
products; obtain input from various stakeholders on how to conduct and 
assess critical quality attribute measurements to demonstrate 
equivalence of complex drug products; and request comments on these 
topics.

DATES: The public workshop will be held on October 6, 2017, from 8:30 
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Submit either electronic or written comments on this 
public workshop by November 10, 2017. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section for registration date and information.

ADDRESSES: The public workshop will be held at FDA White Oak Campus, 
10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 31 Conference Center, the Great Room 
(Rm. 1503 B+C), Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002. Entrance for the public 
workshop participants (non-FDA employees) is through Building 1 where 
routine security check procedures will be performed. For parking and 
security information, please refer to https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/BuildingsandFacilities/WhiteOakCampusInformation/ucm241740.htm.
    You may submit comments as follows. Please note that late, untimely 
filed comments will not be considered. Electronic comments must be 
submitted on or before November 10, 2017. The https://www.regulations.gov electronic filing system will accept comments until 
midnight Eastern Time at the end of November 10, 2017. Comments 
received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for written/paper submissions) 
will be considered timely if they are postmarked or the delivery 
service acceptance receipt is on or before that date.

Electronic Submissions

    Submit electronic comments in the following way:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments submitted 
electronically, including attachments, to https://www.regulations.gov 
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your comment will be 
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your comment 
does not include any confidential information that you or a third party 
may not wish to be posted, such as medical information, your or anyone 
else's Social Security number, or confidential business information, 
such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you include your 
name, contact information, or other information that identifies you in 
the body of your comments, that information will be posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
     If you want to submit a comment with confidential 
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public, 
submit the comment as a written/paper submission and in the manner 
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').

Written/Paper Submissions

    Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
     Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for written/paper 
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug 
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
     For written/paper comments submitted to the Dockets 
Management Staff, FDA will post your comment, as well as any 
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and identified, 
as confidential, if submitted as detailed in ``Instructions.''
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No. 
FDA-2017-N-5776 for ``Demonstrating Equivalence of Generic Complex Drug 
Substances and Formulations: Advances in Characterization and In Vitro 
Testing.'' Received comments, those filed in a timely manner (see 
ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and, except for those 
submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly viewable at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Dockets Management Staff between 9 a.m. 
and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
     Confidential Submissions--To submit a comment with 
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly 
available, submit your comments only as a written/paper submission. You 
should submit two copies total. One copy will include the information 
you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note that states 
``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' The Agency will 
review this copy, including the claimed confidential information, in 
its consideration of comments. The second copy, which will have the 
claimed confidential information redacted/blacked out, will be 
available for public viewing and posted on

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https://www.regulations.gov. Submit both copies to the Dockets 
Management Staff. If you do not wish your name and contact information 
to be made publicly available, you can provide this information on the 
cover sheet and not in the body of your comments and you must identify 
this information as ``confidential.'' Any information marked as 
``confidential'' will not be disclosed except in accordance with 21 CFR 
10.20 and other applicable disclosure law. For more information about 
FDA's posting of comments to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September 
18, 2015, or access the information at: https://www.thefederalregister.org/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov and insert the docket number, found in brackets in 
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the 
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, 
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Xiaohui Jiang, Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New 
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 75, Rm. 4716, Silver Spring, MD 20993, 240-402-
4468, [email protected]; or Darby Kozak, Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New 
Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 75, Rm. 4710, Silver Spring, MD 20993, 240-402-
2647, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    In July 2012, Congress passed the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments 
(GDUFA) (Title III of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and 
Innovation Act (Pub. L. 112-144)). GDUFA is designed to enhance public 
access to safe, high-quality generic drugs and reduce costs to 
industry. To support this goal, FDA agreed in the GDUFA commitment 
letter to work with industry and interested stakeholders on identifying 
regulatory science research priorities specific to generic drugs for 
each fiscal year covered by GDUFA. The commitment letter outlines FDA's 
performance goals and procedures under the GDUFA program for the years 
2012 to 2017. The commitment letter can be found at https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/GenericDrugUserFees/UCM282505.pdf.
    In the Regulatory Science section of the GDUFA Commitment Letter, 
FDA outlined its plans to advance regulatory science, including 
research to support the development of guidance and policy that 
clarifies the ANDA pathway for complex drug products. This regulatory 
science research includes but is not limited to: (1) Assessing 
innovative analytical methods and procedures for characterizing the 
active ingredient sameness and pharmaceutical equivalence of complex 
drug substances, such as peptides and naturally derived substances, and 
(2) developing and evaluating new techniques to measure the critical 
quality attributes of complex formulations, such as liposomes, 
emulsions, suspensions, and polymeric inserts, with the goal of 
providing robust in vitro alternatives to in vivo bioequivalence 
studies, and (3) developing and evaluating critical quality attributes 
for complex drug-device combination products. To facilitate 
communication of recent advances in this regulatory science, including 
those supported by GDUFA funds, FDA plans to hold a public workshop on 
new analytical methods and assessment criteria for demonstrating the 
equivalence of complex drug substances and formulations.

II. Topics for Discussion at the Public Workshop

    The purposes of the workshop are to:
    1. Share FDA's current experiences on the evaluation and 
characterization of critical quality attributes for complex drug 
substances (e.g. polymeric and naturally derived substances and 
peptides) and formulations (e.g. liposomes, emulsions, suspensions, and 
polymeric inserts);
    2. Discuss current and future innovative approaches for the 
development and regulatory review of equivalent complex drug products;
    3. Obtain input from various stakeholders on how to conduct and 
assess critical quality attribute measurements to demonstrate 
equivalence of complex drug products; and
    4. Request comments on these topics.
    The scope of the workshop covers the current status, from an 
academic, industry, and regulatory perspective, of methods for 
assessing the pharmaceutical equivalence of complex drug substances and 
the bioequivalence of complex generic drug product formulations.
    Complex drug substances and formulations present unique development 
and regulatory challenges for generic drugs as establishing equivalence 
may not be straightforward by conventional practices. New and 
innovative analytical and statistical approaches may overcome these 
hurdles and thereby reduce product development time and cost, and 
inform regulatory decisions. For example, new high resolution 
analytical methods and advanced statistical models can provide better 
understanding of the complex structure, and greater confidence of 
structural sameness, needed for demonstrating the pharmaceutical 
equivalence of a generic peptide, carbohydrate, or other naturally-
sourced complex drug substance. In the same fashion, new and innovative 
in vitro characterization methods can provide an accurate measure of 
the critical quality attributes of generic liposomal, emulsion, 
suspension, or polymeric matrix drug products. These in vitro tests can 
often be used to support a demonstration of bioequivalence, in lieu of 
in vivo studies, depending, among other factors, on the sensitivity, 
robustness and/or correlation of these in vitro tests to the product 
performance. The focus of this public workshop is on the evaluation of 
new analytical and statistical methods for demonstrating equivalence of 
complex products, including discussing the areas in which these methods 
can contribute significantly, how and when the methods should be 
conducted and evaluated, and inherent scientific challenges.
    Public input will improve FDA's current understanding of present 
and future methods available for evaluating complex product 
equivalence. The knowledge gained from, and consensus reached, through 
this workshop will be summarized and disseminated to the scientific 
community by publication(s).
    FDA seeks input from the public on when, where, and how to utilize 
new methods for development of equivalent complex drug products and in 
the regulatory review of pharmaceutical equivalence and bioequivalence. 
Specific topics to be addressed include:
    1. Identifying the areas in which new in vitro analytical and 
statistical methods can contribute to the development of equivalent 
complex products and regulatory evaluation of pharmaceutical 
equivalence and bioequivalence;
    2. Discussing how in vitro testing for demonstrating complex 
product equivalence should be conducted and evaluated; and
    3. Addressing the scientific challenges in assessing critical 
quality attributes of complex products and in developing new analytical 
methods for demonstrating complex product equivalence.

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III. Participating in the Public Workshop

    Registration: Persons interested in attending this public workshop 
must register online at https://survey.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X23XS8WXHtfWAJ. Please provide complete contact information for 
each attendee, including name, title, affiliation, address, email, and 
telephone.
    Registration is free and based on space availability, with priority 
given to early registrants. Persons interested in attending this public 
workshop must register by October 2, 2017, midnight, Eastern Time. 
Early registration is recommended because seating is limited; 
therefore, FDA may limit the number of participants from each 
organization.
    If you need special accommodations due to a disability, please 
contact Xiaohui Jiang (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no later 
than October 2, 2017.
    Streaming Webcast of the public workshop: This public workshop will 
also be webcast. A live webcast of this workshop will be viewable at 
https://collaboration.fda.gov/complexgenericdrugs/ on the day of the 
workshop.
    If you have never attended a Connect Pro event before, test your 
connection at https://collaboration.fda.gov/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm. To get a quick overview of the Connect Pro program, 
visit https://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_overview. FDA has verified 
the Web site addresses in this document, as of the date this document 
publishes in the Federal Register, but Web sites are subject to change 
over time.
    Transcripts: Please be advised that as soon as a transcript of the 
public workshop is available, it will be accessible at https://www.regulations.gov. It may be viewed at the Dockets Management Staff 
(see ADDRESSES). A link to the transcript will also be available on the 
Internet at https://www.fda.gov/drugs/newsevents/ucm552461.htm.

    Dated: September 26, 2017.
Anna K. Abram,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Planning, Legislation, and Analysis.
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                                                information found in FDA regulations.                   Substances and Formulations: Advances                 solely responsible for ensuring that your
                                                These collections of information are                    in Characterization and In Vitro                      comment does not include any
                                                subject to review by the Office of                      Testing.’’ The purpose of the workshop                confidential information that you or a
                                                Management and Budget (OMB) under                       is to share FDA’s current experiences on              third party may not wish to be posted,
                                                the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995                     the evaluation and characterization of                such as medical information, your or
                                                (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). The collections                  critical quality attributes for complex               anyone else’s Social Security number, or
                                                of information in 21 CFR part 807,                      drug substances (e.g. polymeric and                   confidential business information, such
                                                subpart E, have been approved under                     naturally derived substances and                      as a manufacturing process. Please note
                                                OMB control number 0910–0120, the                       peptides) and formulations (e.g.                      that if you include your name, contact
                                                collections of information in 21 CFR                    liposomes, emulsions, suspensions, and                information, or other information that
                                                part 820 have been approved under                       polymeric inserts); discuss current and               identifies you in the body of your
                                                OMB control number 0910–0073, and                       future innovative approaches for the                  comments, that information will be
                                                the collections of information in 21 CFR                development and regulatory review of                  posted on https://www.regulations.gov.
                                                part 801 have been approved under                       equivalent complex drug products;                       • If you want to submit a comment
                                                OMB control number 0910–0485. The                       obtain input from various stakeholders                with confidential information that you
                                                collections of information in 21 CFR                    on how to conduct and assess critical                 do not wish to be made available to the
                                                parts 1002 and 1010 are approved under                  quality attribute measurements to                     public, submit the comment as a
                                                OMB control number 0910–0025.                           demonstrate equivalence of complex                    written/paper submission and in the
                                                                                                        drug products; and request comments                   manner detailed (see ‘‘Written/Paper
                                                V. References                                                                                                 Submissions’’ and ‘‘Instructions’’).
                                                                                                        on these topics.
                                                  The following references are on                       DATES: The public workshop will be                    Written/Paper Submissions
                                                display in the Dockets Management                       held on October 6, 2017, from 8:30 a.m.
                                                Staff (see ADDRESSES) and are available                                                                          Submit written/paper submissions as
                                                                                                        to 4:30 p.m. Submit either electronic or              follows:
                                                for viewing by interested persons                       written comments on this public
                                                between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday                                                                                • Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for
                                                                                                        workshop by November 10, 2017. See                    written/paper submissions): Dockets
                                                through Friday; they are also available                 the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
                                                electronically at https://                                                                                    Management Staff (HFA–305), Food and
                                                                                                        for registration date and information.                Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers
                                                www.regulations.gov. FDA has verified
                                                                                                        ADDRESSES: The public workshop will                   Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
                                                the Web site address, as of the date this
                                                                                                        be held at FDA White Oak Campus,                         • For written/paper comments
                                                document publishes in the Federal
                                                                                                        10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 31                    submitted to the Dockets Management
                                                Register, but Web sites are subject to
                                                                                                        Conference Center, the Great Room (Rm.                Staff, FDA will post your comment, as
                                                change over time.
                                                                                                        1503 B+C), Silver Spring, MD 20993–                   well as any attachments, except for
                                                  1. FDA Guidance, ‘‘Information for                    0002. Entrance for the public workshop                information submitted, marked and
                                                Manufacturers Seeking Marketing Clearance               participants (non-FDA employees) is                   identified, as confidential, if submitted
                                                of Diagnostic Ultrasound Systems and
                                                                                                        through Building 1 where routine                      as detailed in ‘‘Instructions.’’
                                                Transducers.’’ Available at: https://
                                                                                                        security check procedures will be                        Instructions: All submissions received
                                                www.fda.gov/downloads/UCM070911.pdf.
                                                  2. FDA, ‘‘Information for Industry.’’                 performed. For parking and security                   must include the Docket No. FDA–
                                                Available at: https://www.fda.gov/                      information, please refer to https://                 2017–N–5776 for ‘‘Demonstrating
                                                RadiationEmittingProducts/Radiation                     www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Working                          Equivalence of Generic Complex Drug
                                                EmittingProductsandProcedures/Medical                   atFDA/BuildingsandFacilities/WhiteOak                 Substances and Formulations: Advances
                                                Imaging/ucm115357.htm                                   CampusInformation/ucm241740.htm.                      in Characterization and In Vitro
                                                  Dated: September 22, 2017.                               You may submit comments as                         Testing.’’ Received comments, those
                                                Leslie Kux,                                             follows. Please note that late, untimely              filed in a timely manner (see
                                                                                                        filed comments will not be considered.                ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket
                                                Associate Commissioner for Policy.
                                                                                                        Electronic comments must be submitted                 and, except for those submitted as
                                                [FR Doc. 2017–21077 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                        on or before November 10, 2017. The                   ‘‘Confidential Submissions,’’ publicly
                                                BILLING CODE 4164–01–P
                                                                                                        https://www.regulations.gov electronic                viewable at https://www.regulations.gov
                                                                                                        filing system will accept comments                    or at the Dockets Management Staff
                                                                                                        until midnight Eastern Time at the end                between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday
                                                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                                                                                                        of November 10, 2017. Comments                        through Friday.
                                                HUMAN SERVICES                                                                                                   • Confidential Submissions—To
                                                                                                        received by mail/hand delivery/courier
                                                Food and Drug Administration                            (for written/paper submissions) will be               submit a comment with confidential
                                                                                                        considered timely if they are                         information that you do not wish to be
                                                [Docket No. FDA–2017–N–5776]                            postmarked or the delivery service                    made publicly available, submit your
                                                                                                        acceptance receipt is on or before that               comments only as a written/paper
                                                Equivalence of Complex Products;                                                                              submission. You should submit two
                                                                                                        date.
                                                Public Workshop; Request for                                                                                  copies total. One copy will include the
                                                Comments                                                Electronic Submissions                                information you claim to be confidential
                                                AGENCY:    Food and Drug Administration,                  Submit electronic comments in the                   with a heading or cover note that states
                                                HHS.                                                    following way:                                        ‘‘THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS
                                                                                                          • Federal eRulemaking Portal:                       CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.’’ The
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                                                ACTION: Notice of public workshop;
                                                request for comments.                                   https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the               Agency will review this copy, including
                                                                                                        instructions for submitting comments.                 the claimed confidential information, in
                                                SUMMARY:  The Food and Drug                             Comments submitted electronically,                    its consideration of comments. The
                                                Administration (FDA, the Agency, or                     including attachments, to https://                    second copy, which will have the
                                                we) is announcing the following public                  www.regulations.gov will be posted to                 claimed confidential information
                                                workshop entitled ‘‘Demonstrating                       the docket unchanged. Because your                    redacted/blacked out, will be available
                                                Equivalence of Generic Complex Drug                     comment will be made public, you are                  for public viewing and posted on


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                                                https://www.regulations.gov. Submit                     outlined its plans to advance regulatory              by conventional practices. New and
                                                both copies to the Dockets Management                   science, including research to support                innovative analytical and statistical
                                                Staff. If you do not wish your name and                 the development of guidance and policy                approaches may overcome these hurdles
                                                contact information to be made publicly                 that clarifies the ANDA pathway for                   and thereby reduce product
                                                available, you can provide this                         complex drug products. This regulatory                development time and cost, and inform
                                                information on the cover sheet and not                  science research includes but is not                  regulatory decisions. For example, new
                                                in the body of your comments and you                    limited to: (1) Assessing innovative                  high resolution analytical methods and
                                                must identify this information as                       analytical methods and procedures for                 advanced statistical models can provide
                                                ‘‘confidential.’’ Any information marked                characterizing the active ingredient                  better understanding of the complex
                                                as ‘‘confidential’’ will not be disclosed               sameness and pharmaceutical                           structure, and greater confidence of
                                                except in accordance with 21 CFR 10.20                  equivalence of complex drug                           structural sameness, needed for
                                                and other applicable disclosure law. For                substances, such as peptides and                      demonstrating the pharmaceutical
                                                more information about FDA’s posting                    naturally derived substances, and (2)                 equivalence of a generic peptide,
                                                of comments to public dockets, see 80                   developing and evaluating new                         carbohydrate, or other naturally-sourced
                                                FR 56469, September 18, 2015, or access                 techniques to measure the critical                    complex drug substance. In the same
                                                the information at: https://www.gpo.gov/                quality attributes of complex                         fashion, new and innovative in vitro
                                                fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-                       formulations, such as liposomes,                      characterization methods can provide
                                                23389.pdf.                                              emulsions, suspensions, and polymeric                 an accurate measure of the critical
                                                   Docket: For access to the docket to                  inserts, with the goal of providing                   quality attributes of generic liposomal,
                                                read background documents or the                        robust in vitro alternatives to in vivo               emulsion, suspension, or polymeric
                                                electronic and written/paper comments                   bioequivalence studies, and (3)                       matrix drug products. These in vitro
                                                received, go to https://                                developing and evaluating critical                    tests can often be used to support a
                                                www.regulations.gov and insert the                      quality attributes for complex drug-                  demonstration of bioequivalence, in lieu
                                                docket number, found in brackets in the                 device combination products. To                       of in vivo studies, depending, among
                                                heading of this document, into the                      facilitate communication of recent                    other factors, on the sensitivity,
                                                ‘‘Search’’ box and follow the prompts                   advances in this regulatory science,                  robustness and/or correlation of these in
                                                and/or go to the Dockets Management                     including those supported by GDUFA                    vitro tests to the product performance.
                                                Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061,                     funds, FDA plans to hold a public                     The focus of this public workshop is on
                                                Rockville, MD 20852.                                    workshop on new analytical methods                    the evaluation of new analytical and
                                                                                                        and assessment criteria for                           statistical methods for demonstrating
                                                FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                                                                        demonstrating the equivalence of                      equivalence of complex products,
                                                Xiaohui Jiang, Center for Drug
                                                                                                        complex drug substances and                           including discussing the areas in which
                                                Evaluation and Research, Food and
                                                                                                        formulations.                                         these methods can contribute
                                                Drug Administration, 10903 New
                                                                                                                                                              significantly, how and when the
                                                Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 75, Rm. 4716,                     II. Topics for Discussion at the Public               methods should be conducted and
                                                Silver Spring, MD 20993, 240–402–                       Workshop                                              evaluated, and inherent scientific
                                                4468, Xiaohui.Jiang@fda.hhs.gov; or
                                                                                                           The purposes of the workshop are to:               challenges.
                                                Darby Kozak, Center for Drug Evaluation                    1. Share FDA’s current experiences on                 Public input will improve FDA’s
                                                and Research, Food and Drug                             the evaluation and characterization of                current understanding of present and
                                                Administration, 10903 New Hampshire                     critical quality attributes for complex               future methods available for evaluating
                                                Ave., Bldg. 75, Rm. 4710, Silver Spring,                drug substances (e.g. polymeric and                   complex product equivalence. The
                                                MD 20993, 240–402–2647,                                 naturally derived substances and                      knowledge gained from, and consensus
                                                Darby.Kozak@fda.hhs.gov.                                peptides) and formulations (e.g.                      reached, through this workshop will be
                                                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                              liposomes, emulsions, suspensions, and                summarized and disseminated to the
                                                I. Background                                           polymeric inserts);                                   scientific community by publication(s).
                                                                                                           2. Discuss current and future                         FDA seeks input from the public on
                                                  In July 2012, Congress passed the                     innovative approaches for the                         when, where, and how to utilize new
                                                Generic Drug User Fee Amendments                        development and regulatory review of                  methods for development of equivalent
                                                (GDUFA) (Title III of the Food and Drug                 equivalent complex drug products;                     complex drug products and in the
                                                Administration Safety and Innovation                       3. Obtain input from various                       regulatory review of pharmaceutical
                                                Act (Pub. L. 112–144)). GDUFA is                        stakeholders on how to conduct and                    equivalence and bioequivalence.
                                                designed to enhance public access to                    assess critical quality attribute                     Specific topics to be addressed include:
                                                safe, high-quality generic drugs and                    measurements to demonstrate                              1. Identifying the areas in which new
                                                reduce costs to industry. To support this               equivalence of complex drug products;                 in vitro analytical and statistical
                                                goal, FDA agreed in the GDUFA                           and                                                   methods can contribute to the
                                                commitment letter to work with                             4. Request comments on these topics.               development of equivalent complex
                                                industry and interested stakeholders on                    The scope of the workshop covers the               products and regulatory evaluation of
                                                identifying regulatory science research                 current status, from an academic,                     pharmaceutical equivalence and
                                                priorities specific to generic drugs for                industry, and regulatory perspective, of              bioequivalence;
                                                each fiscal year covered by GDUFA. The                  methods for assessing the                                2. Discussing how in vitro testing for
                                                commitment letter outlines FDA’s                        pharmaceutical equivalence of complex                 demonstrating complex product
                                                performance goals and procedures
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                                                                                                        drug substances and the bioequivalence                equivalence should be conducted and
                                                under the GDUFA program for the years                   of complex generic drug product                       evaluated; and
                                                2012 to 2017. The commitment letter                     formulations.                                            3. Addressing the scientific challenges
                                                can be found at https://www.fda.gov/                       Complex drug substances and                        in assessing critical quality attributes of
                                                downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/                         formulations present unique                           complex products and in developing
                                                GenericDrugUserFees/UCM282505.pdf.                      development and regulatory challenges                 new analytical methods for
                                                  In the Regulatory Science section of                  for generic drugs as establishing                     demonstrating complex product
                                                the GDUFA Commitment Letter, FDA                        equivalence may not be straightforward                equivalence.


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                                                III. Participating in the Public                        DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND                              Written/Paper Submissions
                                                Workshop                                                HUMAN SERVICES                                           Submit written/paper submissions as
                                                   Registration: Persons interested in                                                                        follows:
                                                                                                        Food and Drug Administration                             • Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for
                                                attending this public workshop must
                                                                                                        [Docket No. FDA–2017–N–2837]                          written/paper submissions): Dockets
                                                register online at https://
                                                                                                                                                              Management Staff (HFA–305), Food and
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                                                Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Planning,               with confidential information that you                56469, September 18, 2015, or access
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public workshop; request for comments.
DatesThe public workshop will be held on October 6, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Submit either electronic or written comments on this public workshop by November 10, 2017. See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for registration date and information.
ContactXiaohui Jiang, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 75, Rm. 4716, Silver Spring, MD 20993, 240-402- 4468, [email protected]; or Darby Kozak, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 75, Rm. 4710, Silver Spring, MD 20993, 240-402- 2647, [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 45856 

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