Federal Regulation of Medications: Development, Production, and Marketing Flashcards
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
Impure food
False efficacy claims 1912
What is the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938?
SAFETY of drugs, labeling/approval
What is the Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951?
Rx and OTC separation
Refills, Oral Rx
Instructions for use
What is the Kefauver-Harris Amendment of 1962?
Pregnancy safety
EFFICACY
Rx ads, GMP, and research
What is the Orphan Drug Act of 1983?
Tax incentives for manufacturers to drive research, Rare diseases
What is the Drug Price Competition Act of 1984?
GENERIC Approval process
What is the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992?
Manufacturers have to pay FEES to support regulation from FDA
What is the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act?
Dietary supplements falling under food category and the claims that can be included on the labels
What is the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997?
Fast-Track Approval Option
OTC products have inactive and active ingredients on label
What is the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007?
Improve Prescription labeling (DUE TO VIOXX), post-marketing surveillance, and REMS program established
What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010?
Added provisions to FDCA
What is the FDA Safety and Innovation Act of 2012?
Safety mechanism for counterfeits/imports, detect and decrease drug shortages, and foreign inspections
What is the Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013?
Oversight of sterile compounding and distribution
Outsourcing facilities, CGMP regulation
Track and trace for distribution chain
(DUE to NECC tragedy)
What is the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016?
Add flexibility/innovation to drug development/approval process
Increase funding to address mental health and substance abuse issues
What is the Rationale for Federal Drug Regulation?
Protection of public against adulterer and misbranded drug products.
Necessity of balancing direction and indirect regulation.
The FDA falls under what U.S. department?
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
What are the functions of the FDA?
Rule-Making
Issue Guidance Documents
Incorporate advice from standing advisory committees of outside experts
What is Drug Defined Part A?
Articles recognized in the USP, homeopathic pharmacopeia or National Formulary NF
What is Drug Defined Part B?
Articles intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease (therapeutic/health claim)
What is Drug Defined Part C?
Articles other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body (structure/function claim)
Why is the drug definition broad?
To include almost anything with an intended therapeutic purpose or purpose of altering the structure or function of the body
What are the 3 points of evidence that a product is a drug?
Labeling, advertising, and nature of product
What is the intended meaning of food in Part C drug definition?
Meaning of food to apply to food used for its ordinary purpose and in an ordinary manner
What are the Legal Food Categories?
Special dietary foods and medical foods
What are special dietary foods?
Formula, sweetners
What are medical foods?
Under physician supervision, require special formulation
What are the Publicly Conceived Food Categories?
Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
What are the 2 special food categories?
Legal and Publicly Conceived
What are Nutraceuticals?
Product with specific nutrients
What are Functional Foods?
Products or nutraceuticals with fortification/enhancement
If there is a health claim for a food, what could result?
The product could be considered a drug
What Acts allow foods to contain health claims if approved by the FDA regulation or by the significant scientific agreement test?
Nutrition Labeling and Education of 1990 and DSHEA of 1994
What is the DSHEA 1994?
Dietary Supplement Health Education Act 1994
What are does DSHEA entitle?
Created a new category of food called dietary supplements DS
DS do not require premarket approval