For the third time in a row, the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has extended the compliance date for Type III Drug Master Files (DMFs) to be submitted in electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) format.

Are you currently planning an eCTD (electronic common technical documents) submission to Australia? If you are intended to, then take a pause and look out for the changes which are to be done while preparing your dossier for the region.

With the FDA concluded its mandatory first phase electronic submissions deadline, first question drug manufacturers could ask themselves is what’s next in line? Where else they can submit their data and which format they should get adopted to? With their target focused on global markets, we suggest to take one-at-a-time approach.

The latest announcement from the Danish Medicine Agency (DMA) specifically points out elimination plan for NeeS format and emphasizes the consequent transition to eCTD for human domain / VNeeS for veterinary domain as directed in the eSubmission Roadmap.