This guidance provides answers to questions from the public comments we received on the draft guidance for industry on ANDAs: Stability Testing of Drug Substances and Products (FDA stability guidance) that published in the Federal Register of September 25, 2012. The final guidance for industry of the same title published in the Federal Register of June 20, 2013. Comments received on the draft of this guidance published in the Federal Register of August 27, 2013 have also been incorporated. General issues; drug master files (DMFs); drug product manufacturing and packaging; and stability studies are discussed in this guidance and are intended to clarify the stability testing data recommendations for abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs). In this document, the terms drug substance and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) are used interchangeably.
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