
FDA’s new guidance on in-vitro permeation test studies published in October 2022 gives technical and statistical requirements for conducting these tests to compare topical generic drugs with their reference products.
Lei Lei is senior R&D director of Cutia Therapeutics, Shanghai, China, and he was principal scientist of Shanghai Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Company

FDA’s new guidance on in-vitro permeation test studies published in October 2022 gives technical and statistical requirements for conducting these tests to compare topical generic drugs with their reference products.

This article describes the in-vitro permeation test study data processing procedures and FDA statistical mathematics of evaluating a generic topical drug product, acyclovir cream, against its reference product.

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