Fed Regist. 2009 Jan 16;74(11):2849-62.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations on the submission of bioequivalence data to require an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) applicant to submit data from all bioequivalence (BE) studies the applicant conducts on a drug product formulation submitted for approval. In the past, ANDA applicants have submitted BE studies demonstrating that a generic product meets bioequivalence criteria in order for FDA to approve the ANDA, but have not typically submitted additional BE studies conducted on the same drug product formulation, such as studies that do not show that the product meets these criteria. FDA is amending the regulation because we now believe that data from additional BE studies may be important in our determination of whether the proposed formulation is bioequivalent to the reference listed drug (RLD), and are relevant to our evaluation of ANDAs in general. In addition, such data will increase our understanding of how changes in components, composition, and methods of manufacture may affect product formulation performance.
美国食品药品监督管理局(FDA)正在修订其关于生物等效性数据提交的法规,要求简略新药申请(ANDA)申请人提交其针对提交审批的药品制剂所开展的所有生物等效性(BE)研究的数据。过去,ANDA申请人提交BE研究以证明仿制药符合生物等效性标准,以便FDA批准该ANDA,但通常未提交针对同一药品制剂开展的其他BE研究,例如未显示该产品符合这些标准的研究。FDA正在修订该法规,因为我们现在认为,其他BE研究的数据对于我们确定拟议制剂是否与参比上市药品(RLD)生物等效可能很重要,并且总体上与我们对ANDA的评估相关。此外,此类数据将增进我们对成分、组成和生产方法的变化如何可能影响产品制剂性能的理解。