FDA ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee will meet next month to dis­cuss Intar­ci­a's di­a­betes drug

An FDA ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee will meet on Sept. 21 to dis­cuss Intar­cia’s twice-re­ject­ed type 2 di­a­betes drug can­di­date and de­liv­ery sys­tem.

The meet­ing comes near­ly six years af­ter the FDA first re­ject­ed Intar­cia’s can­di­date, called IT­CA 650, as an ad­junct to di­et and ex­er­cise to help adults con­trol their type 2 di­a­betes. Reg­u­la­tors blamed clin­i­cal de­fi­cien­cies and prod­uct qual­i­ty is­sues, it was lat­er re­vealed in a Fed­er­al Reg­is­ter no­tice. Intar­cia re­sub­mit­ted its ap­pli­ca­tion in 2019 and re­ceived an­oth­er re­jec­tion six months lat­er, cit­ing sim­i­lar is­sues.

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