2. unit II, chapter-2 regulatory authorities and agencies.
- 1. Unit-II Chapter 2. Regulatory Authorities and Agencies. Represented By, Mr. Audumbar Mali. (Assistant Professor) Sahyadri College of Pharmacy Methwade BP804 ET: PHARMACEUTICAL REGULATORY SCIENCE (Theory)
- 2. Regulatory Authorities And Agencies: 1. United States: National Authority: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over the counter pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, biopharmaceutical, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED) cosmetics, animal food and feed and veterinary products.
- 3. The FDA is led by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The FDA has its headquarters in unincorporated White Oak, Maryland. The agency also has 223 field offices and 13 laboratories located throughout the 50 states, the United States Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Organization Chart of FDA: FDA the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services consists of nine centre-level organizations and thirteen headquarters.
- 5. Type of Applications: Investigational New Drug Application (IND): Application submitted to FDA to seek permission to test a new drug or a biologic in human. New Drug Application (NDA): When the sponsor of the new drug believes that enough Evidence on the drugs safety and effectiveness has been obtained to meet FDA’s requirements for marketing approval, the sponsor submits to FDA a New Drug Application. Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA): An Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) contains data that, when submitted to FDA's Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of Generic Drugs, provides for the review and ultimate approval of a generic drug product. Generic drug applications are called "abbreviated” because they are generally, not required to include preclinical (animal) and clinical (human) data to establish safety and effectiveness.
- 6. Biologic License Application (BLA): A biologics license application is a submission that contains specific information on the manufacturing processes, chemistry pharmacology, clinical pharmacology and the medical effects of the biologic product. 2 Europe: National Authority: The European Medicine Agency (EMA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) in charge of the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products. Prior to 2004, it was known as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products or European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA). EMA was set up in 1995, with funding from European Union and the pharmaceutics industry, as well as indirect subsidy from member states. EMA was founded after more than seven years of negotiations among the EU governments and replaced the Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products and the Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products, though both of these were reborn as the core scientific advisory committees. The agency was located in London prior to the United Kingdom’s vote for withdrawal from the European Union, relocating to Amsterdam in March 2019.
- 8. Type of Applications to EMA: Marketing Authorization Application (MAA): An application submitted by a drug manufacturer seeking permission to bring a medicinal product (a new medicine or generic medicines) to the market. The European Medicine Agency (EMA) is responsible for the scientific evaluation of centralized marketing authorization application (MAA). Once granted by the European Commission, the centralized marketing authorization is valid in all European Union (EU) Member States, Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein. The particular type of applications are as follows: Biosimilars, Generic and hybrid applications, Orphan medicines, Pediatric medicines, Advanced therapy medicinal products, Medicines for use outside the EU.
- 9. 3. Australia Regulatory authority: Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
- 10. Type of Application: Investigational drug: IND. New drugs: New Drug Application (NDA). Generic drugs: Generic Drug Approval Application.
- 11. 4. Canada: Regulatory Authority: Health Canada.
- 12. Type of Applications: New Drugs: NDS (New Drug Submission), SNDS (Supplemental New Drug Submission). Generic Drugs: ANDS (Abbreviated New Drug Submission), SANDS (Supplemental Abbreviated New Drug Submission). 5. Japan: Regulatory Authority of Japan is Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, Its key services include; review of regulatory dossiers. relieve services for Adverse Health Effects and post Market Safety measures. Type of Application: Investigational New Drug Application (INDA). New Drug Application (NDA). Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA).
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