Food and Drug Regulations

C.08.006 (1) For the purposes of subsection (2), evidence or new information obtained by the Minister includes any information or material filed by any person under Division 5 or section C.08.002, C.08.002.01, C.08.002.1, C.08.003, C.08.005 or C.08.005.1.

(2) The Minister may, by notice to a manufacturer, suspend, for a definite or indefinite period, a notice of compliance issued to that manufacturer in respect of a new drug submission, an extraordinary use new drug submission, an abbreviated new drug submission, an abbreviated extraordinary use new drug submission or a supplement to any of those submissions if the Minister considers

• (a) that the drug is not safe for the use represented in the submission or supplement, as shown by evidence obtained from

  • (i) clinical or other experience not reported in the submission or supplement or not available to the Minister at the time the notice of compliance was issued, or

  • (ii) tests by new methods or tests by methods not reasonably applicable at the time the notice of compliance was issued;

• (b) that, upon the basis of new information obtained after the issuance of the notice of compliance, there is lack of substantial evidence that the drug will have the effect it is represented to have under the conditions of use prescribed, recommended or proposed by the manufacturer;

• (c) that the submission or supplement contained an untrue statement of material fact;

• (d) that the manufacturer has failed to establish a system for maintaining required records or has repeatedly or deliberately failed to maintain such records;

• (e) that, on the basis of new information obtained after the issuance of the notice of compliance, the methods, equipment, plant and controls used in the manufacturing, processing and packaging of the drug are inadequate to assure and preserve the identity, strength, quality or purity of the new drug;

• (f) that, on the basis of new information obtained after the issuance of the notice of compliance, the labelling of the drug is false or misleading or incomplete in any particular and that this defect was not corrected by the manufacturer upon receipt of a written notice from the Minister specifying the respect in which the labelling is false or misleading or incomplete; or

• (g) that, in the case of a new drug for extraordinary use, the manufacturer has not adhered to the plan referred to in subparagraph C.08.002.01(2)(b)(ix).

(3) The Minister may, by notice to a manufacturer, suspend for a definite or indefinite period a notice of compliance issued to that manufacturer in respect of a new drug submission, an extraordinary use new drug submission, an abbreviated new drug submission, an abbreviated extraordinary use new drug submission or a supplement to any of those submissions, if, after the Minister has, under section 21.31 of the Act, ordered the holder of a therapeutic product authorization referred to in subparagraph C.01.052(1)(b)(iii) to conduct an assessment of the new drug in order to provide evidence establishing that the benefits associated with the drug outweigh the risks of injury to health,

• (a) the holder fails to comply with the order; or

• (b) the holder complies with the order but the Minister determines that the results of the assessment are not sufficient to establish that the benefits associated with the drug outweigh the risks of injury to health.