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Drug Information Update - Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA)

FDA Division of Drug Information: Know the Moment It Happens

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The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), signed into law today, July 9, 2012, gives FDA the authority to collect user fees from industry to fund reviews of innovator drugs, medical devices, generic drugs and biosimilar biologics. It also reauthorizes two programs that encourage pediatric drug development.

This is the fifth reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act or PDUFA, first enacted in 1992, and the third reauthorization of the Medical Device User Fee Act, or MDUFA, first enacted in 2002. Both programs have provided steady and reliable funding to maintain and support a staff of trained reviewers who must determine whether a proposed new product is safe and effective for patients and do so within a certain time period. The new user fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilar biologics build on the successes of these two established user fee programs.

For more information, please visit: FDASIA


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