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Guideline_on_the_investigation_of_bioequivalence
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About this guideline
Overseas effective date: 1 August 2010
Replaces: CPMP/QWP/EWP/1401/98 (adopted by TGA 12 February 2002)
Categories: Clinical efficacy and safety | Clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics
TGA annotations:
While this guidance suggests that the design and conduct of the study should follow EU regulations on Good Clinical Practice, sponsors should note that the EU Note for Guidance on Good Clinical Practice (CPMP/ICH/135/95) has been adopted in Australia with TGA annotations.
The procedure for abridged applications claiming essential similarity to a reference product (i.e., generics), which allows applications to be made to numerous Member States of the EU, based on bioequivalence with a reference product from one Member State, does not apply in Australia. An application for registration of a generic product in Australia should generally include a bioequivalence study versus a leading brand obtained in Australia.
- Where EU guidelines adopted in Australia include references to EU legislation (including EC Directives and Regulations), the requirements contained in the referenced EU legislation are not applicable to the evaluation of medicines by the TGA.
- All documents and other content published by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on this website are under the copyright and other intellectual property rights ownership of the EMA. Please refer to Legal notice | European Medicines Agency for further information.
For more information see International scientific guidelines adopted in Australia.