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FDA End-of-Year Release of Warning Letters Impresses (or Depresses)

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The FDA compliance data, sorted by category, shows there were 159 Warning Letters issued to drug manufacturers or sponsors during 2023, with 161 issued in calendar year 2022. Two device manufacturers received Warning Letters for QSR violations (QSR is FDA’s label for cGMP requirements applicable to medical device manufacturers).

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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

Drug & Device Law

We have discussed how exclusion of FDA compliance in pelvic mesh cases, based on a false equivalence between preemption and evidentiary admissibility, has hampered the defense in that litigation. A plaintiff’s pursuit of such theories thus should allow admission of standards compliance evidence. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ,