The Food and Drug Administration will hold a public hearing Nov. 5 to discuss planned changes to the format of national drug codes, it said in a notice. The agency will sometime in the future begin issuing 11-digit NDCs once it runs out of the five-digit drug labeler codes that make up a portion of NDCs. FDA anticipates that will happen in about 15 years. The hearing will include discussion of how a change to 11-digit codes will impact the pharmaceutical supply chain, as well as issues related to the current lack of uniformity among NDCs. Written comments are due by Jan. 5, 2019.
On Aug. 9 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Aug. 8 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Aug. 7 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Aug. 3 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Aug. 2 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Aug. 1 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for Aug. 1 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
The Food and Drug Administration posted its updated list of filer evaluation outcomes for August 2018. The frequency of filer evaluations depends on the number of lines filed by the company. An outcome of "paperless" means FDA has determined that electronic filing is appropriate, while "corrective action plan" means FDA has found an elevated error rate and has directed the filer to fix the issue, and "dual-mode filer" means the company has failed to implement corrective action plans and has been returned to dual-mode (paper and electronic) filing. The following filer evaluation outcomes were updated in FDA's August 2018 list:
On July 31 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: