UMeWorld Ltd - Annual Report: 2010 (Form 10-K)
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FORM 10-K
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For the fiscal year ended: September 30, 2010
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AlphaRx,
Inc.
(Name of Small Business Issuer in its
Charter)
Delaware | 98-0416123 |
(State or other jurisdiction of | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
incorporation or organization) |
200-168 Konrad Crescent, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R
9T9
(Address of principal executive offices)
(905) 479-3245
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including area code)
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Issuer's revenues for its most recent fiscal year ended September 30, 2010 were $ 326,345.
The aggregate market value of the issuers Common Stock (the only class of voting stock), held by non-affiliates was approximately $4,065,135 based on the average closing bid and ask price for the Common Stock on September 30, 2010.
As of September 30, 2010 there were 94,635,047 shares outstanding of the issuers Common Stock.
AlphaRx, Inc.
FORM 10-K
For the Year Ended September 30, 2010
INDEX
PART I | ||
Item 1. | Business | 3 |
Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 13 |
Item 1B. | Unresolved Staff Comments | 19 |
Item 2. | Properties | 19 |
Item 3. | Legal Proceedings | 19 |
Item 4. | (Removed and Reserved) | 19 |
PART II | ||
Item 5. | Market for Registrants Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities | 20 |
Item 6. | Selected Financial Data | 21 |
Item 7. | Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 21 |
Item 7A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 28 |
Item 8. | Financial Statements and Supplementary Data | 28 |
Item 9. | Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure | 28 |
Item 9A. | Controls and Procedures | 28 |
Item 9B. | Other Information | 30 |
PART III | ||
Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance | 30 |
Item 11. | Executive Compensation | 32 |
Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters | 34 |
Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence | 34 |
Item 14. | Principal Accounting Fees and Services | 35 |
PART IV | ||
Item 15. | Exhibits, Financial Statements Schedules | 35 |
SIGNATURES | 36 |
PART I
SPECIAL NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The information in this report contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact made in this report are forward looking. In particular, the statements herein regarding industry prospects and future results of operations or financial position are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as believes, estimates, could, possibly, probably, anticipates, projects, expects, may, will, or should, or other variations or similar words. No assurances can be given that the future results anticipated by the forward-looking statements will be achieved. Forward-looking statements reflect managements current expectations and are inherently uncertain. Our actual results may differ significantly from managements expectations.
Although these forward-looking statements reflect the good faith judgment of our management, such statements can only be based upon facts and factors currently known to us. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. As a result, our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth below under the caption Risk Factors. For these statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You should not unduly rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they were made. They give our expectations regarding the future but are not guarantees. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required by law.
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Overview of AlphaRx
Introduction and History
In this annual report on Form 10-K, the "Company," "AlphaRx" "we," "us," and "our," refer collectively to AlphaRx Inc., AlphaRx Canada Limited, our wholly owned subsidiary and 80% of AlphaRx International Holdings Limited.
AlphaRx Inc., formerly known as Logic Tech International Inc., was incorporated in Delaware on August 8, 1997 as an intellectual property holding company whose mission was to identify, acquire and develop new technologies or products and devise commercial applications to be taken to market through licensing or joint venture partners. Logic Tech International Inc. was renamed AlphaRx Inc. on January 28, 2000 and our Common Stock commenced trading on the OTC Pink Sheets under the symbol "AHRX" on July 25, 2000. On October 12, 2000 AlphaRx Inc. Common Stock ceased trading on the Pink Sheets and began trading on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) under the same symbol. Subsequent to March 19, 2002 AlphaRx Inc.s symbol was changed to ALRX after a consolidation of its Common Stock on a 1 new for 5 old basis. All references to AlphaRx Inc. Common Stock have been retroactively restated.
AlphaRx is a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing proven therapies by reformulating FDA approved and marketed drugs which through the application of its proprietary site-specific nano drug delivery technology, offers improved medical benefits and a potential for significant commercial product development. Our core competence is in the development of novel drug formulations for therapeutic molecules or compounds that have exhibited poor gastro intestinal absorption due to poor solubility or have yet be administrable to the human body with an acceptable delivery method. Our nano drug delivery system is versatile and offers significant flexibility in the development of suitable dosage formulations (i.e. oral, topical or parenteral) to meet the requirements of specific drug molecules.
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Since 2000, substantial efforts and resources have been devoted to understanding our nano drug delivery technology and establishing a product development pipeline that incorporated this technology with selected molecules. Since 2008, AlphaRx has undergone many positive changes. New corporate initiatives for China and a corresponding strategic growth plan, led by Ruby Hui, were implemented; our corporate strategy was refocused on commercializing our nano drug delivery technology as quickly as possible, building high-value partnerships and reprioritizing the product pipeline. Spending was redirected and aggressive cost control initiatives were implemented. We continue to investing in the further development of our nano drug delivery technology and to actively seek collaborators and licensees to accelerate the development and commercialization of products incorporating our nano drug delivery system in exchange for milestone payments and royalties. Further development, exploration and commercialization of the technology entail risk and operational expenses. However, we have made significant progress on refocusing our efforts on strategic development initiatives and cost control and continue to aggressively seek to reduce non-strategic spending.
Although our product development program address various pharmaceutical markets, including pain, inflammation, stroke and pneumonia, we constantly evaluate and reassess our development program, resulting in new product candidates and discontinuing or delaying lower priority development program. This development optimization process is essential for assembling a portfolio of short and long-term drug candidates, in order to build a stable and sustainable revenue and profits for our Company.
Recent Developments
On April 9, 2010, we entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Pacific Orient Capital Inc. (Pacific), a Capital Pool Company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, concerning the proposed acquisition of AlphaRx Canada Limited ("ACL"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The letter of intent was subsequently amended on June 9, 2010. The proposed acquisition, if completed, will constitute Pacific's qualifying transaction (Qualifying Transaction) pursuant to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange Inc. (the "Exchange").
The Qualifying Transaction is to be completed by (a) the acquisition of ACL by way of share exchange through the issuance of one common share of Pacific for every one common share of ACL at a deemed price of C$0.40 per share; and (b) the acquisition by Pacific of a licence from AIH to commercialize the prescription drug Indaflex in Mexico and Asia for 8,250,000 common shares of Pacific at a deemed price of C$0.40 per share (the "Transaction"). Pacific has advanced $25,000 to the Company on a non-refundable basis. Completion of the proposed Qualifying Transaction is conditional on the execution of a definitive agreement to be negotiated among the parties, the satisfactory completion of due diligence, Exchange acceptance and the satisfaction of the minimum listing requirements of the Exchange. On October 28, 2010, the Exchange conditionally accepted Pacifics proposed Qualifying Transaction.
On June 28, 2010, we terminated our licensing agreement with Cypress Biosciences (Cypress), our world-wide (except Mexico and Asia) development partner for Indaflex. Despite the termination of Indaflex development program with Cypress, we continue to develop Indaflex for the Chinese market. We are currently working with our regulatory consultants, pending availability of stability data, in preparation for submission of a clinical trial application with the China State Food and Drug Association (SFDA) in order to begin human trials in China. These preparations are proceeding on schedule.
We established a feasibility and option agreement in October 2008 with Gaia BioPharma Limited (Gaia), a privately held early stage biopharmaceutical company. We concluded formulation development on GAI-122 during August 2009. GAI-122 is an investigational, injectable nanoemulsion of a Mitochondria-targeted neuroprotective agent formulated with our nanoemulsion drug delivery technology. GAI-122 has been shown to provide significant neuro-protection in multiple in vitro and in vivo animal studies, suggesting that this injectable nanoemulsion formulation has the potential to treat patients with acute ischemic stroke or to prevent postoperative delirium. GAI-122 is proceeding to the clinical trial materials manufacturing stage and is expected to enter clinical trials in 2011. GAI-122 is protected by 4 United States patent applications and 2 Chinese patent applications.
We established a co-development agreement with Gaia in August 2010 for ARX8203, a prodrug of a well-known NSAID. Under the agreement, GAIA owns the exclusive worldwide rights to the injectable formulation of ARX8203 and the Company owns the exclusive worldwide rights to the oral formulation of ARX8203.
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Our other product candidates in development are in earlier or preclinical research phases, and we continue to assess them for their compatibility with our technology and market need. Our intent is to seek partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for certain of these products. We plan to expand our pipeline with product candidates that demonstrate significant opportunities for growth.
Principal product and services and principal markets
Drug delivery companies apply proprietary technologies to create new pharmaceutical products utilizing drugs developed by others. These products are generally novel, cost-effective dosage forms that may provide any of several benefits, including better control of drug concentration in the blood, improved safety and efficacy, and ease of use and improved patient compliance. We believe our drug delivery technologies can provide pharmaceutical companies with a means of developing new products as well as extending existing patents.
The increasing need to deliver medication to patients efficiently and with fewer side effects has accelerated the development of new drug delivery systems. Today, medication can be delivered to a patient through many different means of delivery, including transdermal (through the skin), injection, implant and oral methods. These delivery methods, however, continue to have certain limitations. Transdermal patches are often inconvenient to apply and can be irritating to the skin. The rate and concentration of release can also be difficult to control. Injections are uncomfortable for most patients. Implants generally are administered in a hospital or physician's office and frequently are not suitable for home use. Oral administration remains the preferred method of administering medication. Conventional oral drug administration, however, also has limitations in that capsules and tablets have limited effectiveness in providing controlled drug delivery, resulting frequently in drug release that is too rapid (causing incomplete absorption of the drug), irritation to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and other side effects. In addition capsules and tablets cannot provide localized therapy. Insoluble or poorly soluble drugs are a major problem for the pharmaceutical industry, with over one-third of the drugs listed in the United States' Pharmacopoeia being insoluble or poorly soluble in water. Further, most approaches used to overcome insolubility result in clinical problems ranging from poor and erratic bioavailability to serious side effects.
We are engaged in developing novel formulations of existing drugs that are insoluble or poorly soluble in water, utilizing our proprietary Bioadhesive Colloidal Dispersion (BCD) (henceforth, BCD) drug delivery systems. Our strategy is to develop patentable improved formulations of such drugs that are soluble in human medicines. Our BCD drug delivery technology includes three different approaches to improve the effectiveness of insoluble drugs and provide new methods of delivery, namely, (i) CLD (Colloidal Lipid Dispersion System), (ii) SECRET (Self Emulsifying Controlled Release Tablet System) and (iii) SLN (Solid Lipid Nanoparticles) delivery system and HLN (Hybrid Lipid-polymer Nanoparticles).
The BCD drug delivery technology is designed to develop drugs with major medical advantages, such as lower dosing, fewer side effects and alternative dosage forms, as well as commercial advantages, such as extended patent protection and broader use. We have a number of drugs under development, certain of which have been successfully reformulated, utilizing our BCD technology.
Products and product pipeline
The table below is a list of our products and candidates in the product pipeline as well as their current stage of development. Although we believe our development strategy of reformulating FDA approved drugs may have less development risks as compared to new chemical entities development, there can be no guarantee that any product candidates can be successfully developed and as such, we constantly evaluate and prioritize our development programs. As a result, new product candidates are constantly added and lower priority development programs may be discontinued or delayed. We believe this product development optimization process is essential for the development of a broad portfolio of short to long-term drug candidates, which will position the company for stable and sustainable growth. Stages of development include Animal Proof of Concept (Animal POC), Investigational New Drug Toxicology Assessment (IND Toxicology), Human Proof of Concept (Human POC), initial drug Formulation, and Clinical Trial Phases (Phase 1, II and III as applicable).
Product | Initial Indication | Stage of Development |
Indaflex* | Osteoarthritis | Phase II |
Zysolin | Pneumonia (Gram neg.) | IND Toxicology |
Zysolin | Biodefense | Animal (POC) |
GAI-122 | Delirium | IND Toxicology |
GAI-122 | Stroke | IND Toxicology |
ARX-8028 | Post-operative Pain | Formulation |
ARX-8028 | Gout | Formulation |
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* Indaflex is approved for sale in Mexico, but must undergo FDA approval for sale in United States and other countries.
**Animal Proof of concept (POC) activities include basic in vitro and in vivo research attempting to adopt our Nano Delivery System (NDS) to the respective drug while maintaining or improving efficacy and effectiveness of the active ingredients. We anticipate that clinical trials, if they take place at all, will initially be conducted outside the United States.
Indaflex is our only prescription drug at the clinical trial stage. We completed a Phase I human trial for Indaflex in Canada during March 2005.
Together with our licensee Proprius Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Proprius"), we completed Phase II clinical trials for Indaflex in March 2007. The randomized double-blind placebo and vehicle controlled trial, which included a six-week treatment period, was conducted on 233 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. While the trial did not meet its primary endpoints, subgroup analyses of patients with moderate to severe pain and more impaired physical function at baseline showed positive trends in patients treated with Indaflex as compared to patients treated with either placebo or vehicle. Indaflex was demonstrated to be safe and well tolerated. Because we did not meet the primary endpoints, under the terms of the Licensing Agreement with Proprius we did not receive any milestone payments for this trial. Proprius retained the rights to clinical development and commercialization of Indaflex in April 2006 in exchange for an initial license fee and future milestone and royalty payments. Future milestone and royalty payments are based on successful completion of trials and commercialization of Indaflex. Proprius is solely responsible for the global commercialization (with the exception of Asia and Mexico) of Indaflex. Proprius was acquired by Cypress Bioscience Inc. (Cypress), during March 2008.
On June 28, 2010, we terminated our licensing agreement with Cypress, our world-wide (except Mexico and Asia) development partner for Indaflex. Despite the termination of Indaflex development program with Cypress, we continue to develop Indaflex for the Chinese market. We are currently working with our regulatory consultants, pending availability of stability data, in preparation for submission of a clinical trial application with the China State Food and Drug Association (SFDA) in order to begin human trials in China. These preparations are proceeding on schedule.
Indaflex is a topical NSAID formulation intended to be used in the treatment of arthritis. Indaflexs active ingredient, Indomethacin, has a long-standing and proven clinical treatment record. With our enhanced proprietary drug delivery system, we believe its clinical effectiveness to be significantly enhanced. Topical Indaflex delivery is intended to circumvent the significant gastro intestinal side effects found with orally ingested NSAIDs.
Zysolin, a formulation of tobramycin in nanoparticles is intended for Gram-negative pneumonia in intubated and mechanically ventilated patients. Zysolin is entering IND (investigational new drug) toxicology assessment. Also USAMRIID (You-SAM-rid), the U.S. military version of the CDC or Centers for Disease control and Prevention have completed 2 studies with Zysolin in treatment of plague and Tulareemia and more studies are forthcoming.
GAI-122 is an injectable nano-emulsion formula intended for multiple indications including: an adjuvant treatment for hepatitis, the prevention of post-operative delirium, treatment of stroke and as a neuroprotectant. GAI-122 is entering an IND toxicology program to be completed by early 2011 and a Phase I is planned for mid-2011.
ARX-8203 is a prodrug of a well-known non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, designed to reduce the occurrence of side- effects associated with the parent drug. ARX-8203 is pH neutral and has significantly less GI toxicity than diclofenac in a 28 days GI animal study. ARX-8203 demonstrates excellent G.I. safety profile in acute GLP toxicity studies and can be administrated orally or via intravenous infusion or IV bolus injection.
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Bioadhesive Colloidal Dispersion (BCD) systems
Our proprietary BCD oral and transdermal drug delivery technologies permit formulations of drug-containing polymeric units that allow controlled delivery of an incorporated hydrophobic drug (this process is referred to as our BCD Systems). Although our formulations are proprietary, the polymers utilized in our BCD Systems are commonly used in the food and drug industries. By using different formulations of the polymers, we believe our BCD Systems are able to provide continuous, controlled delivery of drugs of varying molecular complexity and solubility.
The BCD Systems are designed to provide orally and transdermally administered, conveniently dosed, cost-effective drug therapy in a continuous, controlled delivery over a multi-hour period. We believe our BCD Systems may provide one or more of the following therapeutic advantages over conventional methods of drug administration:
1. Enhanced Safety and Efficacy. We believe our BCD Systems may improve the ratio of therapeutic effect to toxicity by decreasing the initial peak concentrations of a drug, associated with toxicity, while maintaining levels of the drug at therapeutic, sub-toxic concentrations for an extended period of time. Many drugs demonstrate optimal efficacy when concentrations are maintained at therapeutic levels over an extended period of time. When a drug is administered intermittently, the therapeutic concentration is often exceeded for some period of time, and then rapidly drops below effective levels. Excessively high concentrations are a major cause of side effects, while sub-therapeutic concentrations are ineffective.
2. Greater Patient and Caregiver Convenience. We believe our BCD Systems may permit once-daily dosing for certain drugs that are currently required to be administered several times daily, thereby promoting compliance with dosing regimens. Patient non-compliance with dosing regimens has been associated with increased costs by prolonging treatment duration, increasing the likelihood of secondary or tertiary disease manifestation and contributing to over-utilization of medical personnel and facilities. By improving patient compliance, providers and third-party payers may reduce unnecessary expenditures and improve therapeutic outcomes.
3. Expanding the Types of Drugs Capable of Oral Delivery. Some drugs, including certain proteins (complex organic compounds of high molecular weight containing numerous amino acids) and peptides (low molecular weight compounds consisting of two or more amino acids), because of their large molecular size and susceptibility to degradation in the GI tract, must currently be administered by injection or by continuous infusion, which is typically done in a hospital or other clinical setting. We believe our BCD Systems may permit some of these drugs to be delivered orally and/or transdermally without the necessity of visiting a hospital or clinic.
4. Proprietary Reformulation of Generic Products. We believe our BCD Systems offer the potential to produce improved proprietary formulations of off-patent drugs, differentiated from the existing generic products by reduced dosing requirements, improved efficacy, decreased toxicity or additional indications. The potential attraction here is the possibility to re-patent existing drugs due to the adaptation of our delivery systems, which may differentiate the new drug from the existing drug.
Distribution Methods of The Products And Services
We intend to have the BCD Systems used with as many pharmaceutical products as possible. Our primary strategy is to establish collaborative relationships with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to develop improved therapeutic products utilizing our BCD Systems technology. The products will be jointly developed, with the collaborative partner having primary responsibility to clinically test, manufacture, market and sell the product, and we retaining ownership of our technologies. We believe that our partnering strategy will enable us to reduce our cash requirements while developing a larger potential product portfolio. By providing new formulations of existing products using the BCD Systems, we believe it will not only be able to offer our partners improved products but also may provide them with the ability to extend the life of their patents on such products, especially attractive to pharmaceutical companies whose patents on existing products are close to expiration. Collaborations with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are expected to provide near-term revenues from sponsored development activities and future revenues from license fees and royalties relating to the sale or sub-licensing of our products.
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We also intend to develop over-the-counter (OTC) and/or off-patent drug products utilizing our BCD Systems, either independently or jointly by entering into collaborative partnerships with pharmaceutical, biotechnology or other healthcare companies. To reduce costs and time-to-market, we intend to select those products that treat indications with clear-cut clinical end-points and that are reformulations of existing compounds already approved by the FDA. We believe that products utilizing the BCD Systems will provide favorable product differentiation in the highly competitive generic and OTC drug product markets at costs below those of other drug delivery systems, thereby enabling us and our collaborative partners to compete more effectively in marketing improved off-patent and OTC drug products. We are also seeking to establish alliances with overseas sales and marketing partners for the initial sale of our future generic products. We believe that due to the more favorable regulatory environments in some foreign countries, we may be able to generate revenues from these markets while awaiting FDA approval in the United States.
Competition
There are other companies that have oral drug delivery technologies that compete with the BCD Systems. The competitors have oral tablet products designed to release the incorporated drugs over time. Each of these companies has a patented technology with attributes different from ours, and in some cases with different sites of delivery to the GI tract. We believe that we are the only drug delivery company that is currently using polymeric based colloidal dispersion controlled release technologies to develop products for oral and transdermal drug delivery for enhanced solubility and bioavailability for drugs that are not readily water soluble. We believe that this combination of oral and transdermal drug delivery technologies differentiates us from other oral drug delivery companies and will enable us to attract pharmaceutical companies to incorporate their proprietary drugs into the BCD Systems and also to differentiate any OTC and/or off-patent drugs that utilize the BCD Systems from those of other drug delivery companies.
Competition in the areas of pharmaceutical products and drug delivery systems is intense and this is expected to continue in the future. Competing technologies may prove superior, either generally or in particular market segments, in terms of factors such as cost, consumer satisfaction or drug delivery profile. Our principal competitors in the business of developing and applying drug delivery systems have substantially greater financial, technological, marketing, personnel and research and development resources than we do. In addition, we may face competition from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that may develop or acquire drug delivery technologies. Many of our potential collaborative partners have devoted and are continuing to devote significant resources in the development of their own drug delivery systems and technologies. Products incorporating our technologies will compete both with products employing advanced drug delivery systems and with products in conventional dosage forms. New drugs or future developments in alternate drug delivery technologies may provide therapeutic or cost advantages over any potential products that utilize the BCD Systems. There can be no assurance that developments by others will not render any potential products utilizing the BCD Systems non-competitive or obsolete. In addition, our competitive success will depend heavily on entering into collaborative relationships on reasonable commercial terms, commercial development of products incorporating the BCD Systems, regulatory approvals, and protection of intellectual property and market acceptance of such products.
Patents, Trademarks and Proprietary Rights
It is our policy to file patent applications in the United States and certain foreign jurisdictions for any drug formulations and any drug delivery methodologies that we consider commercially viable. We have four United States patent pending applications as follows: Colloidal solid lipid vehicle for pharmaceutical application and Hybrid Lipid-Polymer Nanoparticulate Delivery Composition for the use of Zysolin to treat Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, Topical composition for acne treatment and Stabilization of benzoyl peroxide in solution for the use of NuProm to treat acne. We have also applied for patents in Mexico, Japan and China under the title Vehicle for topical delivery of anti-inflammatory compounds for the use of Indaflex to increase efficacy of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs which are still pending.
We currently have three issued United States patents as follows: Toothpaste comprising bioadhesive submicron emulsion for improved delivery of antibacterial and anticaries agents for the use of certain oral care products that have never been developed. This patent was issued on September 12, 2000 and will expire on June 17, 2019. Vehicle for topical delivery of anti-inflammatory compounds for the use of Indaflex to increase efficacy of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. This patent was issued on November 21, 2006 and will expire on September 29, 2021. Stabilization of benzoyl peroxide in solution. This patent was issued on December 26, 2006 and will expire on December 21, 2021.
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No assurance can be given that our patent applications will be approved or that any issued patents will provide competitive advantages for the BCD System or our technologies or will not be challenged or circumvented by competitors. With respect to any patents which may be issued from our applications, there can be no assurance that claims allowed will be sufficient to protect our technologies. Patent applications in the United States are maintained in secrecy until a patent is issued and we cannot be certain that others have not filed patent applications for technology covered by our pending applications or that we were the first to file patent applications for such technology. Competitors may have filed applications for, or may have received patents and may obtain additional patents and proprietary rights relating to, compounds or processes that may block our patent rights or compete without infringing our patent rights. In addition, there can be no assurance that any patents issued to us will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, or that the rights granted thereunder will provide proprietary protection or commercial advantage to us.
We also rely on trade secrets and proprietary know-how that we seek to protect, in part, through confidentiality agreements with employees, consultants, collaborative partners and others. There can be no assurance that these agreements will not be breached, that we will have adequate remedies for any such breach or that our trade secrets will not otherwise become known or be independently developed by competitors. Although potential collaborative partners, research partners and consultants are not given access to our proprietary trade secrets and know-how until they have executed confidentiality agreements, these agreements may be breached by the other party or may otherwise be of limited effectiveness or enforceability.
Trademarks
We have registered the following trademarks in Canada: BCD, Flexogan, Indaflex,AlphaRx, and PhytoScience. We have registered the following trademarks in the United States: Flexogan, Indaflex, LipoBloc, PhytoScience, BCD and Oralife. We have also registered Flexogan and Indaflex in the Peoples Republic of China. In connection with our Internet web site, we have registered with Network Solutions, Inc., the internet domain name "AlphaRx.com" for our corporate website.
Proprietary Information
Much of our technology is dependent upon the knowledge, experience and skills of key scientific and technical personnel. To protect the rights to our proprietary technology, our policy requires all employees and consultants to execute confidentiality and non-competition agreements that prohibit the disclosure of confidential information to anyone outside the Company. These agreements also require disclosure and assignment to us of discoveries and inventions made by such persons while devoted to Company activities.
Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales
We do not have and do not intend to establish in the foreseeable future internal manufacturing capabilities. Rather, we intend to use the facilities of our collaborative partners or those of contract manufacturers to manufacture products using the BCD Systems. Our dependence on third parties for the manufacture of products using the BCD Systems may adversely affect our ability to develop and deliver such products on a timely and competitive basis. There may not be sufficient manufacturing capacity available to us when, if ever, it is ready to seek commercial sales of products using the BCD Systems. In addition, we expect to rely on our collaborative partners or to develop distributor arrangements to market and sell products using the BCD Systems. We may not be able to enter into manufacturing, marketing or sales agreements on reasonable commercial terms, or at all, with third parties. Failure to do so would have a material adverse effect on us.
Applicable good manufacturing practices (GMP) requirements and other rules and regulations prescribed by foreign regulatory authorities will apply to the manufacture of products using the BCD Systems. We will depend on the manufacturers of products using the BCD Systems to comply with current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and applicable foreign standards. Any failure by a manufacturer of products using the BCD Systems to maintain cGMP or comply with applicable foreign standards could delay or prevent their commercial sale. This could have a material adverse effect on us.
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We are not actively pursuing the direct sales and marketing of our market ready products or potential products due primarily to our limited amount of financial resources. We do retain marketing and sales agents from time to time on an as needed basis on a commission or flat fee basis and other incentives.
Government Regulation
We are subject to regulation under various federal laws regarding pharmaceutical products and also various Canadian federal and provincial laws regarding, among other things, occupational safety, environmental protection, hazardous substance control and product advertising and promotion. In connection with our research and development activities, AlphaRx is subject to federal, provincial and local laws, rules, regulations and policies governing the use, generation, manufacture, storage, air emission, effluent discharge, handling and disposal of certain materials and wastes. We believe that we have complied with these laws and regulations in all material respects and we have not been required to take any action to correct any material non-compliance.
In the United States, pharmaceutical products, including any drugs utilizing the BCD System, are subject to rigorous regulation by the FDA. If a company fails to comply with applicable requirements, it may be subject to administrative or judicially imposed sanctions such as civil penalties, criminal prosecution of our officers and employees, injunctions, product seizure or detention, product recalls, total or partial suspension of production, FDA withdrawal of approved applications or FDA refusal to approve pending new drug applications, premarket approval applications, or supplements to approved applications.
Prior to commencement of clinical studies involving human beings, preclinical testing of new pharmaceutical products is generally conducted on animals in the laboratory to evaluate the potential efficacy and the safety of the product. The results of these studies are submitted to the FDA as a part of an IND application, which must become effective before clinical testing in humans can begin. Typically, clinical evaluation involves a time consuming and costly three-phase process.
OTC products that comply with monographs issued by the FDA are subject to various FDA regulations such as cGMP requirements, general and specific OTC labelling requirements (including warning statements), the restriction against advertising for conditions other than those stated in product labelling, and the requirement that in addition to approved active ingredients OTC drugs contain only safe and suitable inactive ingredients. OTC products and manufacturing facilities are subject to FDA inspection, and failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements may lead to administrative or judicially imposed penalties. If an OTC product differs from the terms of a monograph, it will, in most cases, require FDA approval of an NDA for the product to be marketed.
In Canada and the United States, the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products is rigorously controlled by the Canadian Health Products and Food Branch (HPFB) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), respectively. The laws of both countries require appropriate manufacturing facilities and carefully controlled research, manufacturing and testing of products. Pharmaceutical companies must establish control over manufacturing and testing of their products, through the use of good manufacturing practices (GMP) before being allowed to market their products. The safety and efficacy of a new product must be demonstrated through clinical trials of the drug carried out under procedures acceptable to the HPFB and FDA.
In Canada, new in vivo products must pass through a number of testing stages including pre-clinical testing and clinical trial testing. Pre-clinical testing usually involves evaluating the products pharmacokinetics, pharmacology and toxicology in animals. Successful results (that is, potentially valuable pharmacological activity combined with an acceptable level of toxicity) can lead to Investigational New Drug (IND) status. This enables the manufacturer of the new product to begin clinical trials on humans.
In order to achieve IND status in Canada, a clinical trial application (CTA) must be filed with the HPFB. The submission must contain specified information including the results of the preclinical tests completed at the time of the submission together with any available data on testing in humans. In addition, since the method of manufacture may affect the efficacy and safety of a product, information on manufacturing methods and standards and the stability of the substance and dosage form must be presented to enable the HPFB to evaluate whether the product that may eventually be sold to the public has been shown to be comparable to that determined to be effective and safe in the clinical trials. Production methods and quality control procedures must be in place to ensure that a product meets its specifications for identity and purity and other parameters for assessing product quality. The submission must also provide details on the testing that is to be performed, including who will be performing the testing and where it will be performed.
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Once the HPFB clears a CTA, clinical trials can begin. Clinical trials are generally carried out in three phases. Phase I involves studies to evaluate safety in humans. The new product is administered to consenting subjects to determine the safety profile and prevalence of adverse side effects. In many Phase I studies the effects of dosing and scheduling are also studied. Phases II and III involve efficacy studies. Phase II trials seek clues to clinical efficacy, while furthering the safety profile in patients with the condition the product is intended to treat. In Phase III, controlled clinical trials are conducted in which the product is administered to a large number of patients who may receive benefit from the product. In Phase III, the effectiveness of the new product is usually compared to that of a control or accepted methods of treatment or best standard of care, in the anticipation that significant clinical efficacy can be demonstrated. After clearance of the initial CTA application, the manufacturer has certain reporting responsibilities to the HPFB.
If the clinical studies are successful, the manufacturer submits a New Drug Submission (NDS) (referred to in the United States as a New Drug Application or NDA or Biologics Licence Application or BLA) to the HPFB for marketing approval. The NDS contains all information pertaining to the proposed claims about the products performance including the results of the pre-clinical and clinical studies. Information about a substance contained in an NDS includes its proper name, its chemical name, details on its method of manufacturing and purification and its biological, pharmacological and toxicological properties. The NDS also gives information about the dosage form of the product including the quantitative listing of all ingredients used in the formulation, its method of manufacture, packaging and labelling, the results of stability tests, its diagnostic or therapeutic claims and side effects as well as details of the clinical studies to support the safety and efficacy of the product. All aspects of the NDS are critically reviewed by the HPFB. Where an NDS is found satisfactory and the manufacturing establishment(s) is found satisfactory a Notice of Compliance is issued permitting the substance to be sold.
The controls of a new product do not cease once it is on the market. For example, a manufacturer of a new product must report any new information received concerning serious side effects, including the failure of the product to produce desired effects. In addition, if it is determined to be in the interest of the public health, a Notice of Compliance for a new product may be suspended and the new product may be removed from the market.
The requirements for in vivo products outlined for Canada are similar to those in all major pharmaceutical markets and while the tests carried out for Canada are likely to be acceptable for all other countries, supplementary testing may be requested by individual regulatory authorities during their assessment of any submissions by the Company.
In the United States, a manufacturer must prepare and file an IND submission with the FDA before testing can begin on humans. An application contains a variety of information about the products, including the results of previous animal and human studies, the basic chemistry of the product and manufacturing information. The submission also provides details on the testing that is to be performed, including who will be performing the testing and where it will be performed. As in Canada, human studies are characterized as Phase I, Phase II or Phase III studies. Phase I studies focus on the safety profile of the product, Phase II seeks clues as to efficacy, and Phase III seeks to statistically confirm in larger trials the efficacy of the product.
After acceptance of the initial IND application, the manufacturer has certain reporting responsibilities to the FDA including the submission of yearly updates on the products safety. As the testing progresses into Phases II and III, the focus shifts to the efficacy of the product and the clinical studies that will enable the manufacturer to receive FDA approval for the marketing of the product.
The process of completing clinical testing and obtaining regulatory approval for a new product is, in general, likely to take a number of years and require the expenditure of substantial resources. If an application is submitted, there can be no assurance that the HPFB or FDA will review and approve the marketing application in a timely manner. Even after initial approval has been obtained, further studies may be required by an agency to provide additional data or may be voluntarily conducted to gain approval for the use of a product as a treatment for clinical indications other than those for which the product was initially tested. Also, the HPFB and FDA require post-market surveillance programs to monitor a products side effects. Results of post-marketing programs may limit or expand the further marketing of products. It is not possible to accurately predict the time required for new product approval or the extent of clinical testing and documentation that may be required by regulatory authorities. Any delays in obtaining, or failing to obtain, regulatory approvals would significantly delay the development of markets and the receipt of revenues from the sale of these products.
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In addition to the regulatory product approval framework, pharmaceutical companies are subject to regulation under provincial, state and federal law, including requirements regarding occupational safety, laboratory practices, the use, handling and disposition of radioactive materials, environmental protection and hazardous substance control, and may be subject to other present and future local, provincial, state, federal and foreign regulation, including possible future regulation of the biotechnology field.
Furthermore, even if required FDA approval has been obtained with respect to a product, foreign regulatory approval of a product must also be obtained prior to marketing the product internationally. Foreign approval procedures vary from country to country and the time required for approval may delay or prevent marketing. In certain instances our collaborative partners or we may seek approval to market and sell certain of our products outside of the U.S. before submitting an application for U.S. approval to the FDA. The regulatory procedures for approval of new pharmaceutical products vary significantly among foreign countries. The clinical testing requirements and the time required to obtain foreign regulatory approvals may differ from that required for FDA approval. Although there is now a centralized EU approval mechanism in place, each EU country may nonetheless impose our own procedures and requirements, many of which are time consuming and expensive, and some EU countries require price approval as part of the regulatory process. Thus, there can be substantial delays in obtaining required approval from both the FDA and foreign regulatory authorities after the relevant applications are filed, and approval in any single country may not be a meaningful indication that the product will thereafter be approved in another country.
The foreign regulatory approval process includes all of the risks associated with obtaining FDA approval set forth above, and approval by the FDA does not ensure approval by the health authorities of any other country, nor does the approval by foreign health authorities ensure approval by the FDA.
We presently have a licensed manufacturer and distributor in Mexico - Andromaco. We rely on Andromaco to complete, maintain and adhere to the required regulatory processes and procedures needed to manufacture and distribute our product in Mexico. Andromaco is a large pharmaceutical manufacturer in Mexico with more than 50 years of experience in manufacture, marketing and distribution of drugs. We will attempt to complete licensing and distribution arrangements in foreign countries and in the United States with larger, experienced organizations to ensure that regulatory processes and country-specific regulations are being observed and maintained.
Research and Development
We conduct our research and development activities in house and through collaborative arrangements with universities, contract research organizations and independent consultants. We are also dependent upon third parties to conduct clinical studies, and to obtain FDA, Health Canada and other regulatory approvals. We conduct all of our fundamental research and development activities in Canada. We conduct animal testing, and other specialized research and development activities in various countries via third parties depending primarily on the most competitive pricing we can obtain.
We anticipate incurring significant development expenditures in the future as we continue our efforts to develop our present technologies and new formulations and as we begin to research other technologies and to commence or expand clinical studies of certain products.
Insurance
We maintained product liability insurance until September 30, 2008 in the amount of CAD $1,000,000. As we no longer directly sell, market, or manufacture any products we determined that product liability insurance is no longer necessary. We have never had any adverse legal or other consequences from either Flexogan sales, nor from our Phase 1 and II clinical trials on Indaflex. Our licensees do have product liability insurance based on their commercial activities. Should we determine to commence direct sales or production of any of our products or product candidates, product liability insurance will be obtained accordingly. Any clinical trials require separate insurance coverage related specifically to those trials. We could still be indirectly subject to product liability claims.
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We have property insurance coverage, materials in transit, kidnap and ransom, and business interruption insurance coverage. Although we deem the coverage amounts to be adequate to protect our interests, there is no assurance that the insurance coverage would be adequate to protect us against all potential liabilities. We do not carry directors and officers liability insurance due to the prohibitive cost and limited coverage this insurance offers.
Employees
We have four full time employees and two part time consultants on staff. None of our staff is represented by a collective bargaining agreement, nor have we experienced any work stoppage. We believe that our relations with our staff are good.
Reports to Security Holders
As a result of its filing of Form 10-SB/A and listing on the NASD OTC Bulletin Board, the Company has become subject to the reporting obligations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). These obligations include filing an annual report under cover of Form 10-K, with audited financial statements, unaudited quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and the requisite proxy statements with regard to annual shareholder meetings. The public may read and copy any materials the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) at the Commissions Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the Commission at 1-800-SEC-0030. The Commission maintains an Internet site (http://www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the Commission. Information about the Company is also available on its Web site at www.AlphaRx.com. Information included on the Web site is not part of this Form 10-K.
Website
Our website address is www.AlphaRx.com.
We intend to make available through our website, all of our filings with the Commission and all amendments to these reports as soon as reasonably practicable after filing, by providing a hyperlink to the EDGAR website containing our reports.
Our Information
Our principal executive offices are currently located at 19/F, Two International Finance Centre, 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong and our telephone number is (852) 2251-1927. We can be contacted by email at info@AlphaRx.com.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
We provide the following cautionary discussion of risks, uncertainties and possible inaccurate assumptions relevant to our business and our products. These are factors that we think could cause our actual results to differ materially from expected results. Other factors besides those listed here could also adversely affect us.
We have significant historical losses and may continue to incur losses in the future.
We have incurred annual operating losses since our inception. As a result, at September 30, 2010 we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $ 18,527,806. Our revenues for the years ended September 30, 2010 and September 30, 2009 were $326,345 and $377,480 respectively. Our revenues have not been sufficient to sustain our operations. Revenues for 2010 consisted of royalty revenues and consulting revenues and in 2009 revenues consisted of royalty revenues and consulting revenues. In order to achieve profitability our revenue streams will have to increase and there is no assurance that revenues can increase to such a level. We may never be profitable.
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We face intense competition in the pharmaceutical business, and our failure to compete effectively would decrease our ability to generate meaningful revenues from our products.
The pharmaceutical business is highly competitive and is affected by new technologies, governmental regulations, health care legislation, availability of financing, litigation and other factors. Many of our competitors have longer operating histories and greater financial, research and development, marketing and other resources than we do. We are subject to competition from numerous other entities that currently operate or intend to operate in the industry. These include companies that are engaged in the development of colloidal drug delivery technologies and products as well as other manufacturers that may decide to undertake in-house development of these products. Many of the major pharmaceutical companies also have internal drug delivery programs that may compete directly with our business.
Many of our competitors have more extensive experience than we have in conducting preclinical studies and clinical trials, obtaining regulatory approvals, and manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical products. Many competitors also have competing products that have already received regulatory approval or are in late-stage development, and may have collaborative arrangements in our target markets with leading companies and research institutions.
Our competitors may develop or commercialize more effective, safer or more affordable products, or obtain more effective patent protection, than we are able to develop, commercialize or obtain. As a result, our competitors may commercialize products more rapidly or effectively than we do, which would adversely affect our competitive position, the likelihood that our products will achieve market acceptance, and our ability to generate meaningful revenues from our products.
Pre-clinical Research and Clinical Trials
In order to apply for a new medicine certificate, a pharmaceutical company must conduct a series of pre-clinical research including research on the synthesis technology, extraction methods, physical and chemical nature and purity, pharmaceutical forms, selection of prescriptions, manufacturing technologies, examination methods, quality indicators, stability, pharmacology, toxicology and animal pharmacokinetics of pharmaceuticals. This pre-clinical research should be conducted in compliance with the relevant technological guidelines issued by the SFDA. In particular, the safety evaluation research must be conducted in compliance with the Good Laboratory Practice.
After completion of pre-clinical studies and obtaining the relevant approval from the SFDA, clinical trials are conducted in compliance with the Good Clinical Practice. Clinical trials to be conducted range from Phase I to IV, although under certain circumstances, only Phase II and III or only Phase III clinical trials are required.
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Phase I preliminary trial of clinical pharmacology and human safety evaluation studies. The primary objective is to observe the pharmacokinetics and the tolerance level of the human body to the new medicine as a basis for ascertaining the appropriate methods of dosage.
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Phase II preliminary exploration on the therapeutic efficacy. The purpose is to assess preliminarily the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products on patients within the target indication of the pharmaceutical products and to provide the basis for the design research and dosage tests for Phase III. The design and methodology of research in this phase generally adopts double-blind and random methods with limited sample sizes.
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Phase III confirm the therapeutic efficacy. The objective is to further verify the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products on patients within the target indication of the pharmaceutical products, to evaluate the benefits and risks and finally to provide sufficient experimental proven evidence to support the registration application of the pharmaceutical products. In general, the trial should adopt double-blind, random methods with sufficient sample sizes.
- Phase IV stage of application with research conducted by the applicants themselves after the launch of a new pharmaceutical. The objective is to observe the efficacy and adverse reaction of pharmaceutical products under extensive use, to perform an evaluation of the benefits and risks of the application among ordinary or special group of patients, and to ascertain and improve the appropriate dosage volume for application.
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Our prior clinical trials evaluating Indaflex for Osteoarthritis of the knee failed to meet all of their primary endpoints and there can be no assurance this product will be approved for marketing.
In October 2007, our Phase 2 Canadian trials evaluating Indaflex for Osteoarthritis of the knee failed to meet all of their primary endpoints. However, additional analyses demonstrated that patients with moderate to severe pain demonstrated improvements in pain outcomes compared to placebo- and vehicle-treated patients. While these improvements involved only a small subset of patients, the data were robust, showing clinically meaningful improvements. Based on the guidance from Chinese regulatory consultants, we expect to initiate a pivotal human trial for Indaflex in China in mid-2011. The trial will be known as PAIN 3. There can be no assurance the results of the PAIN 3 trial will demonstrate the product candidate is sufficiently safe and effective to obtain Chinese approval for marketing.
We will incur significant additional expenses and will not know for at least one to two years whether the drug is safe and effective such that it could be approved for marketing. Clinical development is a long, expensive and uncertain process and is subject to delays. The positive or encouraging results of prior clinical trial are not necessarily indicative of the results we will obtain in later clinical trials. Accordingly, our PAIN 3 trial may not demonstrate that Indaflex is effective for Osteoarthritis. In addition, data obtained from pivotal clinical trials are susceptible to varying interpretations, which could delay, limit or prevent regulatory approval.
We have limited in-house sales and marketing resources, which we will require in order to successfully promote products through our own sales force.
If Indaflex or another product we develop or acquire is approved for marketing in the China, we may choose to promote the product with our own sale force or through a contract sales organization. The success of our own promotion efforts for Indaflex and any other product candidates that receive regulatory approval that we choose to market or co-market, will require that we substantially enhance our in-house marketing and sales force with technical expertise, or make arrangements with third parties to perform these services for us. The development of the infrastructure associated with these activities involves substantial resources, and considerable attention of our management and key personnel. To the extent that we enter into marketing and sales arrangements with other companies, our revenues will depend on the efforts of others. These efforts may not be successful. If we fail to fully develop marketing and sales capabilities, or enter into arrangements with third parties, our revenues may suffer.
We depend on our marketing partner for the successful commercialization of Indaflex in Mexico.
We have licensed exclusive marketing right to Indaflex in Mexico to Andromaco. Andromaco launched Indaflex in Mexico in June 2006. We expect to expand the license with Andromaco to cover several more countries in South America. If Andromaco fails to successfully commercialize Indaflex in these countries them, our future revenues may be adversely affected.
The global economic downturn may adversely affect our business.
The economic downturn that has affected the global economy over the past several fiscal quarters may have a material adverse effect on our liquidity and financial condition and our ability to raise additional funds, whether pursuant to our existing or future financing arrangements. In addition, if these developments negatively impact the ability of our collaborative partners to develop, manufacture, promote or commercialize our products and product candidates, our revenues may suffer and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. Similarly, any negative impact of an economic downturn or recession on our potential collaborative partners could adversely affect the terms on which collaborative partnerships may be available to us, if at all.
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If we are unable to obtain or maintain regulatory approval, we will be limited in our ability to commercialize our products, and our business will be harmed.
The regulatory process is expensive and time consuming. Even after investing significant time and expenditures on clinical trials, we may not obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates. Data obtained from clinical trials are susceptible to varying interpretations, which could delay, limit or prevent regulatory approval, and the regulatory agency may not agree with our methods of clinical data analysis or our conclusions regarding safety and/or efficacy. Significant clinical trial delays would impair our ability to commercialize our products and could allow our competitors to bring products to market before we do. In addition, changes in regulatory policy for product approval during the period of product development and regulatory agency review of each submitted new application may cause delays or rejections. Even if we receive regulatory approval, this approval may entail limitations on the indicated uses for which we can market a product.
Further, with respect to our approved products, once regulatory approval is obtained, a marketed product and its manufacturer are subject to continual review. The discovery of previously unknown problems with a product or manufacturer may result in restrictions on the product, manufacturer or manufacturing facility, including withdrawal of the product from the market. Manufacturers of approved products are also subject to ongoing regulation, including compliance with regulations governing current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). Failure to comply with manufacturing regulations can result in, among other things, warning letters, fines, injunctions, civil penalties, recall or seizure of products, total or partial suspension of production, refusal of the government to renew marketing applications and criminal prosecution.
We depend on third parties to manufacture our products, which could adversely affect our ability to deliver our products to market on a timely or competitive basis.
We do not have, and we do not intend to establish in the foreseeable future, internal commercial scale manufacturing capabilities. Rather, we intend to use the facilities of third parties to manufacture products for clinical trials and commercialization. Our dependence on third parties for the manufacture of our products may adversely affect our ability to deliver such products on a timely or competitive basis. The manufacturing processes of our third party manufacturers may be found to violate the proprietary rights of others. If we are unable to contract for a sufficient supply of required products on acceptable terms, or if we encounter delays and difficulties in our relationships with manufacturers, the market introduction and commercial sales of our products will be delayed, and our future revenue will suffer.
Our disclosure controls & procedures and internal control over financial reporting were ineffective
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires companies to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of their disclosure controls & procedures and internal control over financial reporting. At the end of each fiscal year, we must perform an evaluation of our disclosure controls & procedures and internal control over financial reporting, include in our annual report the results of the evaluation, and have our external auditors publicly attest to such evaluation. If material weaknesses were found in our disclosure controls & procedures and internal controls in the future, if we fail to complete future evaluations on time, or if our external auditors cannot attest to our future evaluations, we could fail to meet our regulatory reporting requirements and be subject to regulatory scrutiny and a loss of public confidence in our disclosure and internal controls, which could have an adverse effect on our stock price.
In connection with managements assessment of the Companys disclosure controls & procedures and internal control over financial reporting, we identified the following material weakness in our disclosure controls & procedures and internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2010:
Segregation of Duties: We did not maintain adequate segregation of duties related to job responsibilities for initiating, authorizing, and recording of certain transactions. Due to this material weakness, there is a risk that a material misstatement in the financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
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We are subject to currency fluctuations, which may affect our results
The majority of our expenses and some of our debt are in Canadian dollars, while our revenues are primarily U.S. dollars. We also incur expenses in Hong Kong dollars related to our Far East subsidiaries. The fluctuation of the Canadian dollar and Hong Kong dollar vis a vis the U.S. dollar could materially impact our operating results and financial position.
We will require additional financing to sustain our operations, and our ability to secure additional financing is uncertain.
We may be unable to raise on acceptable terms, if at all, the substantial capital resources necessary to conduct our operations. If we are unable to raise the required capital, we may be forced to limit some or all of our research and development programs and related operations, curtail commercialization of our product candidates and, ultimately, cease operations. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including:
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continued scientific progress in our research programs;
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progress with preclinical studies and clinical trials;
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the magnitude and scope of our research and development programs;
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our ability to establish corporate partnerships and licensing arrangements;
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the time and costs involved in obtaining regulatory approvals;
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the costs involved in preparing, filing, prosecuting, maintaining, defending and enforcing patent claims;
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the potential need to develop, acquire or license new technologies and products;
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the continued ability to source loans from our private lenders;
- our efforts to sell and market our products through licensees, distributors and other partners; and . other factors beyond our control.
At September 30, 2010, we had a working capital deficiency of approximately $1,146,913 as compared to a working capital deficiency of $978,820 as at September 30, 2009. The independent auditors' report for the year ended September 30, 2010 includes an explanatory paragraph stating that our recurring losses from operations and working capital levels raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
We believe that satisfying our long-term capital requirements will require at least the successful commercialization of one of our over-the-counter health care products or one of our prescription drug candidates. Our products may never become commercially successful.
We are subject to industry and government regulation
All of our products, clinical trials, and certain research and development initiatives are regulated by Canadian health authorities, and if applicable, the FDA in the United States, and similar governing bodies in Mexico, China and elsewhere. Any changes in regulatory requirements, depth and breadth of clinical trials, provisions, statutes, or regulations could adversely impact the cost and duration of our research and development, product completion and related operations.
Our competitors may include large pharmaceutical companies with superior resources.
We are engaged in a rapidly changing and highly competitive field. To date, we have concentrated our efforts primarily on one pharmaceutical product -- Indaflex for treating osteoarthritis and other inflammatory indications. Like the market for any pharmaceutical product, the market for treating arthritis and these other indications has the potential for rapid, unpredictable and significant technological change. Competition is intense from specialized biotechnology companies, major pharmaceutical and chemical companies and universities and research institutions. We currently have no products approved for sale in the U.S. If we are successful in obtaining approval for one of our products, our future competitors will have substantially greater financial resources, research and development staffs and facilities, and regulatory experience than we do. Major companies in the field of osteoporosis treatment include Novartis, Wyeth, Merck, Eli Lilly, Aventis, and Procter & Gamble Co. Any one of these potential competitors could, at any time, develop products or a manufacturing process that could render our technology or products non-competitive or obsolete.
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Our success depends upon our ability to protect our intellectual property rights.
We filed applications for U.S. patents relating to proprietary drug delivery technologies and formulations that we have invented in the course of our research. To date, three U.S. patents have been issued and other applications are pending. We have also made patent application filings in selected foreign countries. We face the risk that any of our pending applications will not issue as patents. In addition, our patents may be found to be invalid or unenforceable. Our business is also subject to the risk that our issued patents will not provide us with significant competitive advantages if, for example, a competitor were to independently develop or obtain similar or superior technologies. To the extent we are unable to protect our patents and patent applications, our investment in those technologies may not yield the benefits that we expect.
We also rely on trade secrets to protect our inventions. Our policy is to include confidentiality and non-disclosure obligations in all research contracts, joint development agreements and consulting relationships that provide access to our trade secrets and other know-how. However, parties with confidentiality obligations could breach their agreements causing us harm. If a confidentiality or non-disclosure obligation were to be breached, we may not have the financial resources necessary for a legal challenge. If licensees, consultants or other third parties use technological information independently developed by them or by others in the development of our products, disputes may arise from the use of this information and as to the ownership rights to products developed using this information. These disputes may not be resolved in our favour.
We are not aware of infringing on any third partys patents, nor are we aware of any third party infringing on any of our patents or patent applications.
Our technology, clinical trials, or products could give rise to product liability claims.
Our business exposes us to the risk of product liability claims that are a part of human testing, manufacturing and sale of pharmaceutical products. The administration of drugs to humans, whether in clinical trials or commercially, can result in product liability claims even if our products are not actually at fault for causing an injury. Furthermore, our products may cause, or may appear to cause, adverse side effects or potentially dangerous drug interactions that we may not learn about or understand fully until the drug is actually manufactured and sold. Product liability claims can be expensive to defend and may result in large judgments against us. Even if a product liability claim is not successful, the adverse publicity, time, and expense involved in defending such a claim may interfere with our business. We may not have sufficient resources to defend against or satisfy these claims. Even though our licensees are required to have product liability insurance we may still be subject to product liability claims.
We may be unable to retain key employees or recruit additional qualified personnel.
Because of the specialized scientific nature of our business, we are highly dependent upon qualified scientific, technical, and managerial personnel. There is competition for qualified personnel in our business. Therefore, we may not be able to attract and retain the qualified personnel necessary for the development of our business. The loss of the services of existing personnel, as well as the failure to recruit additional key scientific, technical, and managerial personnel in a timely manner would harm our research and development programs and our business.
The market price of our Common Stock is volatile.
The market price of our Common Stock has been, and we expect it to continue to be, highly unstable. Factors, including our announcement of technological improvements or announcements by other companies, regulatory matters, research and development activities, new or existing products or procedures, signing or termination of licensing agreements, concerns about our financial condition, operating results, litigation, government regulation, developments or disputes relating to agreements, patents or proprietary rights, and public concern over the safety of activities or products have had a significant impact on the market price of our stock. We expect such factors to continue to impact our market price for the foreseeable future.
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Our Common Stock is classified as a "penny stock" under SEC rules which may make it more difficult for our stockholders to resell our Common Stock.
Our Common Stock is traded on the OTC Bulletin Board. As a result, the holders of our Common Stock may find it more difficult to obtain accurate quotations concerning the market value of the stock. Stockholders also may experience greater difficulties in attempting to sell the stock than if it was listed on a stock exchange or quoted on the Nasdaq National Market or the Nasdaq Small-Cap Market. Because AlphaRx Common Stock is not traded on a stock exchange or on Nasdaq, and the market price of the Common Stock is less than $5.00 per share, the Common Stock is classified as a "penny stock." Rule 15g-9 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 imposes additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers that recommend the purchase or sale of penny stocks to persons other than those who qualify as an "established customer" or an "accredited investor." This includes the requirement that a broker-dealer must make a determination that investments in penny stocks are suitable for the customer and must make special disclosures to the customer concerning the risks of penny stocks. Application of the penny stock rules to our Common Stock could adversely affect the market liquidity of the shares, which in turn may affect the ability of holders of our Common Stock to resell the stock.
We have a significant number of options and warrants outstanding that could be exercised in the future. Subsequent resales of these and other shares could cause the Companys stock price to decline. This could also make it more difficult to raise funds at acceptable levels, via future securities offerings.
Lack of Independent Directors
We cannot guarantee that our Board of Directors will have a majority of independent directors in the future. In the absence of a majority of independent directors, our executive officers, which are also principal stockholders and directors, could establish policies and enter into transactions without independent review and approval thereof. This could present the potential for a conflict of interest between the Company and its stockholders generally and the controlling officers, stockholders or directors.
Ownership of our Common Stock by Current Officers and Directors
The present officers and directors own approximately 28.41% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, and are therefore no longer in a position to elect all of our Directors and otherwise control the Company. Any single shareholder or the management group as a whole can no longer control the Company. Stockholders have no cumulative voting rights. (See Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management)
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
NONE.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
We lease approximately 2,930 square feet in Markham, Ontario, on a month-to-month basis. Present leasing costs are approximately $3,800 a month. We believe that our existing properties are sufficient for our administrative, research and development needs for the foreseeable future.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
There are no legal proceedings against the Company to the best of the Companys knowledge as of the date hereof and to the Companys knowledge, no action, suit or proceeding has been threatened against the Company.
ITEM 4. (REMOVED AND RESERVED)
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PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANTS COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
MARKET INFORMATION
Our Common Stock is traded over-the-counter and its quotations are carried in the Electronic Bulletin Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
The following table sets forth the range of high and low bid quotations for our Common Stock for the periods indicated from sources we deem reliable.
High $ | Low $ | |
Fourth Quarter (Ended September 30, 2010) | 0.06 | 0.04 |
Third Quarter (Ended June 30, 2010) | 0.10 | 0.03 |
Second Quarter (Ended March 31, 2010) | 0.13 | 0.08 |
First Quarter (Ended December 31, 2009) | 0.16 | 0.07 |
Fourth Quarter (Ended September 30, 2009) | 0.19 | 0.10 |
Third Quarter (Ended June 30, 2009) | 0.12 | 0.03 |
Second Quarter (Ended March 31, 2009) | 0.04 | 0.02 |
First Quarter (Ended December 31, 2008) | 0.06 | 0.02 |
The foregoing quotations reflect inter-dealer prices without retail mark-up, markdown or commissions and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.
Records of our stock transfer agent indicate that as of September 30, 2010 there were approximately 72 record holders of our Common Stock. This does not include an indeterminate number of stockholders who may hold their shares in "street name" or in nominee form.
DIVIDENDS
We have never declared any cash dividends and do not anticipate paying such dividends in the near future. We anticipate all earnings, if any, over the next twelve (12) to twenty - four (24) months will be retained for working capital purposes. Any future determination to pay cash dividends will be at the discretion of the Board of Directors and will be dependent upon our results of operations, financial conditions, contractual restrictions, and other factors deemed relevant by the Board of Directors. We are under no contractual restrictions in declaring or paying dividends to our common stockholders.
The future sale of presently outstanding "unregistered" and "restricted" Common Stock of the Company by present members of management and persons who own more than five percent of the outstanding voting securities of the Company may have an adverse effect on the public market for our Common Stock.
STOCK OPTION PLANS
At the Annual General Meeting of stockholders held on November 26, 2008 a majority of stockholders approved a new stock option plan - the 2008 Stock Incentive Plan. This plan is generally more restrictive than the preceding plans were. Major amendments to the existing plans reflected in the 2008 Stock Incentive Plan include: (i) combining the 2004 and 2006 Plans for ease of administration; (ii) providing a cap for the number of options to be issued at 22,000,000; (iii) providing guidelines for exercise prices such that the exercise price of any newly granted option is never less than the market value or in the case of a 10%+ holder, never less than 110% of the market value on the date of grant; (iv) providing for a maximum term of 5 years for any option granted; (v) provide for a vesting schedule whereby vesting must occur over at least 18 months with no more than 1/6th of the options granted vesting in any 3 month period; (vi) providing for the maximum number of options to be granted to any one individual in any 12 month period to be no more than 5% of the issued and outstanding common stock, and (vii) providing for a maximum number of options to be granted to any Investor Relations party to be no more than 2% of the issued and outstanding common stock. Finally, in accordance with the existing Plan we can grant no more than 4,310,000 options regardless of how many options may be exercised or expire.
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No options were granted nor were any exercised during the year ended September 30, 2010. There remain 14,260,000 options to purchase shares of Common Stock as of September 30, 2010.
During fiscal 2008 employees, officers and consultants exercised a total of 3,430,000 options at an average exercise price of approximately $0.08 per share and resulting in $274,750 in cash proceeds to the Company. Of these options 700,000 were from the 2000 Plan and had a weighted remaining contractual life of 2.5 years when exercised and 2,730,000 were from the 2004 Plan and had a weighted remaining contractual life of 7.8 years when exercised. Immediately thereafter the remaining options in the 2000 Plan and 2003 Plan were cancelled, with the agreement of the option holders. In addition, and pursuant to an application for listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange, the Company cancelled a total of 7,660,000 options with the agreement of the option holders during fiscal 2008. Also during fiscal 2008, with the agreement of the option holders, the option expiry date for all remaining 2004 Plan options was accelerated to June 30, 2012. All options now expire on or before June 30, 2012.
RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES
During fiscal 2010, 2,263,855 shares of common stock with a value of $113,192.75, based upon the quoted trading price of $0.05 per share, were issued to Michael Lee (President & CEO) in lieu of salary. There remains 94,635,047 common stock issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2010
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Not required for smaller reporting companies.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATONS
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the information contained in the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the notes thereto appearing elsewhere herein and in conjunction with the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations set forth in (1) the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2010. Readers should carefully review the risk factors disclosed in this Form 10-K and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC.
As used in this report, the terms "Company," "AlphaRx" "we," "us," and "our," refer collectively to AlphaRx Inc., AlphaRx Canada Limited, our wholly owned subsidiary and 80% of AlphaRx International Holdings Limited.
PRELIMINARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These include statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future, which we indicate by words or phrases such as "anticipate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "will," "we believe," "the Company believes," "management believes" and similar language. The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the Company and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those set forth in the discussion under "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in this report. Actual results may differ materially from results anticipated in these forward-looking statements. We base the forward-looking statements on information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to update them. Investors are also advised to refer to the information in our previous filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), especially on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, in which we discuss in more detail various important factors that could cause actual results to differ from expected or historic results. It is not possible to foresee or identify all such factors. As such, investors should not consider any list of such factors to be an exhaustive statement of all risks and uncertainties or potentially inaccurate assumptions.
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General
AlphaRx is a drug delivery company specializing in the development of innovative therapeutic products for the pharmaceutical and consumer health care market. Our core competence is in the development of novel drug formulations for therapeutic molecules or compounds that have exhibited poor gastro intestinal absorption due to poor solubility or have yet be administrable to the human body with an acceptable delivery method. Our drug delivery system is versatile and offers significant flexibility in the development of suitable dosage formulations. Our delivery systems can be adopted to administer drugs orally, topically, or parenterally in order to meet the requirements of specific drug molecules.
Please refer to the table under Product Pipeline, Item 1 for the current status of our product research and development activities.
The costs incurred for each of these initiatives to date cannot be readily determined because (i) there is no clear distinction between initiatives in order to be able to differentiate between them; (ii) all initiatives have a common goal and that is to adopt our Bioadhesive Colloidal Dispersion (BCD) drug delivery system to the specific drug in order to improve that drugs effectiveness; and (iii) we do not maintain a time control system to differentiate research and development activities.
The nature, timing and estimated costs to complete a project and anticipated completion dates cannot be estimated because: (i) the nature of research is experimental and we could encounter unforeseen situations which could significantly delay project completion or require us to abandon the project; (ii) timing to complete a project depends, to a certain extent, on financial resources and we cannot predict with any degree of certainty that financial resources will be available when needed to complete any specific project and (iii) cost estimates cannot be predicted with any acceptable degree of accuracy due to unforeseen issues arising during the clinical stages or the approval stages of any specific initiative.
If we cannot complete our research and development initiatives on a timely basis consequences to our operations could be significant to the point where the initiative would be delayed or even abandoned. We would also face the risk of competitors developing the same or similar products and being first to market. Finally, our failure to develop products on a timely basis could substantially impair our ability to generate revenues and materially harm our financial position.
We cannot predict the timing of material net cash inflows from significant projects due to a number of factors including (i) availability of financial resources required to market a new product, (ii) our lack of experience in bringing a new product to market successfully and gaining market share; (iii) competitors products and the nature and timing of their marketing initiatives.
We intend to continue investing in the further development of our drug delivery technologies and to actively seek collaborators and licensees to accelerate the development and commercialization of products incorporating our drug delivery systems. Depending upon a variety of factors, including collaborative arrangements, available personnel and financial resources, we will conduct or fund clinical trials on such products and will undertake the associated regulatory activities.
Recent Developments
On April 9, 2010, we entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Pacific Orient Capital Inc. (Pacific), a Capital Pool Company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, concerning the proposed acquisition of AlphaRx Canada Limited ("ACL"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The letter of intent was subsequently amended on June 9, 2010. The proposed acquisition, if completed, will constitute Pacific's qualifying transaction (Qualifying Transaction) pursuant to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange Inc. (the "Exchange").
The Qualifying Transaction is to be completed by (a) the acquisition of ACL by way of share exchange through the issuance of one common share of Pacific for every one common share of ACL at a deemed price of C$0.40 per share; and (b) the acquisition by Pacific of a licence from AIH to commercialize the prescription drug Indaflex in Mexico and Asia for 8,250,000 common shares of Pacific at a deemed price of C$0.40 per share (the "Transaction"). Pacific has advanced $25,000 to the Company on a non-refundable basis. Completion of the proposed Qualifying Transaction is conditional on the execution of a definitive agreement to be negotiated among the parties, the satisfactory completion of due diligence, Exchange acceptance and the satisfaction of the minimum listing requirements of the Exchange. On October 28, 2010, the Exchange conditionally accepted Pacifics proposed Qualifying Transaction.
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On June 28, 2010, we terminated our licensing agreement with Cypress Biosciences (Cypress), our world-wide (except Mexico and Asia) development partner for Indaflex. Despite the termination of Indaflex development program with Cypress, we continue to develop Indaflex for the Chinese market. We are currently working with our regulatory consultants, pending availability of stability data, in preparation for submission of a clinical trial application with the China State Food and Drug Association (SFDA) in order to begin human trials in China. These preparations are proceeding on schedule.
We established a feasibility and option agreement in October 2008 with Gaia BioPharma Limited, a privately held early stage biopharmaceutical company. We concluded formulation development on GAI-122 during August 2009. GAI-122 is an investigational, injectable nanoemulsion of a Mitochondria-targeted neuroprotective agent formulated with our nanoemulsion drug delivery technology. GAI-122 has been shown to provide significant neuro-protection in multiple in vitro and in vivo animal studies, suggesting that this injectable nanoemulsion formulation has the potential to treat patients with acute ischemic stroke or to prevent postoperative delirium. GAI-122 is proceeding to the clinical trial materials manufacturing stage and is expected to enter clinical trials in 2011. GAI-122 is protected by 4 United States patent applications and 2 Chinese patent applications.
We established a co-development agreement with Gaia in August 2010 for ARX8203, a prodrug of a well-known NSAID. Under the agreement, GAIA owns the exclusive worldwide rights to the injectable formulation of ARX8203 and the Company owns the exclusive worldwide rights to the oral formulation of ARX8203.
Our other product candidates in development are in earlier or preclinical research phases, and we continue to assess them for their compatibility with our technology and market need. Our intent is to seek partnerships with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for certain of these products. We plan to expand our pipeline with product candidates that demonstrate significant opportunities for growth.
The Companys Drug Pipeline
Management believes that it has achieved significant milestones in the development of a number of drug candidates. We now have high efficacy lead drug candidates against three commercially important diseases, namely, (1) Stroke (GAI-122), (2) Nosocomial pneumonia (Zysolin) and (3) Pain and Inflammation (ARX8203).
The Company has not yet finished performing detailed safety profile studies to be included in a Tox Package for submission to the FDA for any of our drug candidates. Our studies regarding safety of the various drug candidates to date have been preliminary and of a limited nature.
Managements beliefs are based on results of pre-clinical cell culture studies and in vivo animal studies using mice and rats. It should be noted that all of our studies to date were preliminary. Thus, the evidence we have developed is indicative and not considered confirmative.
Requirement for Additional Capital
We estimate that we will need approximately an additional $10M to $15M over the next 18 months for further development of our drug pipeline. These additional funds, if raised, will enable us to perform IND enabling Toxicology Package Studies and additional efficacy studies necessary to prepare the full dataset required for filing Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with the US FDA on our drug candidates and to conduct clinical trials thereafter.
The Company has limited experience with pharmaceutical drug development. Thus, our budget estimates are not based on experience, but rather based on advice given by our associates and consultants. As such these budget estimates may not be accurate. In addition, the actual work to be performed is not known at this time, other than a broad outline, as is normal with any scientific work. As further work is performed, additional work may become necessary or change in plans or workload may occur. Such changes may have an adverse impact on our estimated budget. Such changes may also have an adverse impact on our projected timeline of drug development.
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Management intends to use capital and debt financing, as required, to fund the Companys operations. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to obtain the additional capital resources necessary to fund its anticipated obligations for the next twelve months.
The Company is considered to be a development stage company and will continue in the development stage until it generates substantial revenues from the sales of its products or services.
Research and Development Costs
The Company does not maintain separate accounting line items for each project in development. The Company maintains aggregate expense records for all research and development conducted. Because at this time all of the Companys projects share a common core material, the Company allocates expenses across all projects at each period-end for purposes of providing accounting basis for each project. Project costs are allocated based upon labor hours performed for each project.
The Company has signed several cooperative research and development agreements with different agencies and institutions.
The Company expects to enter into additional cooperative agreements with other governmental and non-governmental, academic, or commercial, agencies, institutions, and companies. There can be no assurance that a final agreement may be achieved and that the Company will execute any of these agreements. However, should any of these agreements materialize, the Company will implement a system to track these costs by project and account for these projects as customer-sponsored activities and show these project costs separately.
Overview of Results of Operations
The following tables summarize the results of operations for the years ended September 30, 2010 and 2009 and the quarterly results of operations for the past two years:
Year Ended September 30 | 2010 | 2009 | ||||
$ | $ | |||||
Net Sales | 326,345 | 377,480 | ||||
Net Loss | (465,981 | ) | (441,876 | ) | ||
Net Loss Per Share | (0.01 | ) | (0.01 | ) |
Three | Sep 30 | June 30 | Mar 31 | Dec 31 | Sep 30 | June 30 | Mar 31 | Dec 31 | ||||||||||||||||
Months | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2009 | 2009 | 2009 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
Ended | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||
Net Sales | 180,432 | 45,623 | 48,720 | 51,570 | 88,815 | 20,982 | 164,109 | 103,574 | ||||||||||||||||
Net Income (Loss) | (242,109 | ) | (157,366 | ) | 206,078 | (122,518 | ) | (208,562 | ) | (235,695 | ) | (23,420 | ) | (21,039 | ) | |||||||||
Net (Income) Loss per Share (1) | (0.01 | ) | (0.01 | ) | 0.00 | (0.00 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.01 | ) | (0.01 | ) |
NOTE (1) Net Loss per share on a quarterly basis does not equal net Loss per share for the annual periods due to rounding.
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to year ended September 30, 2009
Revenues
Revenues totaled $326,345 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $377,480 generated for the year ended September 30, 2009, a decrease of $51,135 or about 13.55%. Royalties from Indaflex sales in Mexico increased to $242,309 from $137,223 generated for the same period a year ago based on increased sales of Indaflex and an increase in the minimum royalty payment compared to previous year. We also generated $84,036 in consulting revenues related to product research on behalf of one of our customers during the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $240,257 generated for the year ended September 30, 2009, a decrease of $156,221 or about 65%. We anticipate generating both royalty revenues and consulting revenues in the new fiscal year.
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses were $795,416 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $499,339 incurred for the same period a year ago, an increase of $296,077 or about 59%.
Stock based compensation was $262,090 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $73,725 in 2009, a decrease of $188,365 or about 255%. There are no further amounts remaining to be amortized related to warrants or options as at September 30, 2009. We anticipate issuance of additional options and warrants in the future, which may result in stock based compensation expense and warrant amortization expense.
General and administrative salary and consulting fees totalled $174,073 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $175,871 incurred for the same period a year ago, a decrease of $1,798 or about 1.02%. Head count in the general and administrative category with 2 full time and 1 part time staff.
We incurred $6,777 in investor relations expenses for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $35,787 incurred in the same period a year ago, a decrease of $29,010 or about 81.1%.
We realized a foreign exchange loss of $27,408 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to a foreign exchange gain of $49,189 generated during the same period a year ago, a decrease of $21,781 between years.
We incurred travel expenses of $67,037 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $63,733 incurred during the same period a year ago, an increase of $3,304 or about 5%. Increased travel particularly to China because of the expansion to china market.
Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses include costs for scientific personnel, supplies, equipment, outsourced clinical and other research activities, consultants, and other costs directly related to research and development of new and existing products. We are incurring research and development expenses in Canada via our wholly owned subsidiary AlphaRx Canada Ltd. and to a lesser degree in China.
We incurred $151,165 in research and development expenses during the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $204,731 incurred in the same period a year ago, a decrease of $53,566 or about 26%.
Research and development staff costs and external consulting services totalled $86,822 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $139,379, a decrease of $52,557 or about 37.7%. Salary reductions and reduced external consulting services served to reduce this expense when compared to prior year.
Finally equipment leasing for research and development activities totalled $2,194 during the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $11,151, a reduction of $8,957 or about 80%. All equipment leases have come to the end of their lease term during the year ended September 30, 2010.
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During 2009 we focused our research and development efforts on Vancomycin, Idebenone, Mebicar, and Iodoantipyrine. Activities primarily related to formulations, and analytical development and testing.
During 2008 we incurred research and development expenses related to completing animal testing with Zysolin, as well as continued research and development with Vancomycin, Tobramycin, Gentamycin and Doxycycline.
We anticipate continued spending on research and development in the future. The degree and pace of expenditures will depend primarily on financial resources available to us.
Depreciation Expense
Depreciation expense totalled $39,503 for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $61,288 incurred for the same period a year ago, a decrease of $21,785 or about 35.6%. On December 1, 2009 we spent $5,700 (10% of its original cost) for the purchase of an off-lease equipment from leaser used in research & development. Fully depreciated assets no longer attracting depreciation expense more than offset the additional depreciation expense stemming from capital asset purchases made in 2009.
Interest Expense
We incurred $92,062 in net interest expense during 2010 as a result of our borrowings and the issuance of promissory notes yielding interest ranging from 10% - 12% per annum. This compares to $54,154 incurred during 2009 an increase of $37,908 or about 70%. We will continue to seek funding in the form of Promissory Notes, which will result in ongoing interest expense until more permanent equity or other forms of funding are sourced.
Loss from Continuing Operations and Net Loss
As a result of the above revenues and expenses, we incurred a loss from continuing operations of $($751,801) for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to $(442,032) incurred for the same period a year ago, an increase of $309,769 or about 70%. Revenues decreased by $51,135 and expenses increased by $258,634 in the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to the previous year.
Cumulative Translation Adjustment and Comprehensive Loss
The cumulative translation adjustment (CTA) stems from unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses resulting from translation of foreign currency subsidiaries into U.S. dollars. Although the CTA is reflected in the statement of operations, it is reflected after the net loss and flows into stockholders equity/ (deficiency) directly. The CTA was a $33 gain for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to a gain of $4,373 for the year ended September 30, 2009. Netting the CTA against the Net Loss for the year results in comprehensive loss of $(728,038) for the year ended September 30, 2010 as compared to a comprehensive loss of $(437,503) incurred for the year ended September 30, 2009.
Liquidity And Capital Resources
At September 30, 2010, we had a working capital deficiency of approximately $1,146,910 as compared to a working capital deficiency of $978,820 as at September 30, 2009. We have licensing arrangements with Andromaco which provides our royalty of our products. We also generate certain consulting revenues from time to time in conjunction with our research and development. We continue to seek out licensing and royalty arrangements and distribution arrangements with established and experienced partners in order to expand our revenue base.
Immediate capital needs are sourced via directors loans and other private sources. Since inception, we have financed operations primarily from the issuance of Common Stock. We expect to continue Common Stock issuances and issuance of promissory notes to fund our ongoing activities.
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We currently do not have sufficient resources to complete the commercialization of all of our proposed products or to carry out our entire business strategy. Therefore, we will need to raise additional capital to fund our operations sometime in the future. We cannot be certain that any financing will be available when needed. Any additional equity financings will be dilutive to our existing stockholders, and debt financing, if available, may involve restrictive covenants on our business and also the issuance of warrants or conversion features which may further dilute our existing stockholders.
We expect to continue to spend capital on:
1. | research and development programs; |
2. | preclinical studies and clinical trials; |
3. | regulatory processes; and |
4. | sales and marketing activities related to establishing collaborative, licensing and distribution agreements. |
The amount of capital we may need will depend on many factors, including:
1. | the progress, timing and scope of our research and development programs; |
2. | the progress, timing and scope of our preclinical studies and clinical trials; |
3. | the time and cost necessary to obtain regulatory approvals; |
4. | the time and cost necessary to establish licensing and similar marketing arrangements in order to generate royalty and license fee revenues; |
5. | the time and cost necessary to respond to technological and market developments; and |
6. | new collaborative, licensing and other commercial relationships that we may establish. |
The inability to raise capital would have a material adverse effect on the Company.
Off Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off balance sheet arrangements that are material and which, in our opinion, could become material in the future.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
Excluding accounts payable and accrued liabilities, the Company is committed to the following contractual obligations and commitments.
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |||||||||||
Operating Lease Obligations | $ | 6,431 | $ | 14,313 | $ | 9,962 | - | - | |||||||
Notes Payable (1) | 790,671 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
Total | $ | 797,102 | $ | 14,313 | $ | 9,962 | - | - |
(1) These notes are unsecured and include accrued interest accruing at rates ranging from 8% -12% per annum.
Certain Factors that may Affect Future Results
Certain of the information contained in this document constitutes forward-looking statements, including but not limited to those with respect to the future revenues, our development strategy, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risks and uncertainties associated with a drug delivery company including a history of net losses, unproven technology, lack of manufacturing experience, current and potential competitors with significant technical and marketing resources, need for future capital and dependence on collaborative partners and on key personnel. Additionally, we are subject to the risks and uncertainties associated with all drug delivery companies, including compliance with government regulations and the possibility of patent infringement litigation, as well as those factors disclosed in our documents filed from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK
Not required for smaller reporting companies.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
The financial statements for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010 and 2009, required by Item 7 are set forth on pages F-1 through F-21.
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
On December 16, 2010, Schwartz Levitsky Feldman LLP ("SLF") resigned as the independent accountant of AlphaRx, Inc. (the "Company"). The Board of Directors acting in the capacity of an audit committee approved the dismissal of SLF.
SLF's reports on the Company's financial statements for the years ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, nor were they qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles except that the reports for both years indicated that the Company is under development, has suffered significant operating losses, and is dependent upon its stockholders to provide sufficient working capital to meet its obligations and sustain its operations. Accordingly, such reports indicated that there was substantial doubt as to the Company's ability to continue as a going concern and that the financial statements did not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
During the years ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 and through December 16, 2010, there were no disagreements with SLF on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to the satisfaction of SLF, would have caused it to make reference thereto in connection with its reports on the financial statements for such years. During the years ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 and through December 16, 2010, there were no matters that were either the subject of a disagreement as defined in Item 304(a)(l)(iv) of Regulation S-K or a reportable event as described in Item 304(a)(l)(v) of Regulation S-K.
The Company provided SLF with a copy of the foregoing disclosures and requested SLF to furnish the Company with a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating whether or not SLF agrees with the disclosures.
On December 17, 2010, the Company's Board of Directors acting in the capacity of an audit committee engaged Albert Wong & Co. ("AWC") as the Company's new independent accountant to act as the principal accountant to audit the Company's financial statements. During the Company's fiscal years ended September 30, 2009 and 2008 and through November 15, 2010, neither the Company, nor anyone acting on its behalf, consulted with AWC regarding the application of accounting principles to a specific completed or proposed transaction or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on the Company's financial statements, and no written report or oral advice was provided that AWC concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to any such accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue.
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15e promulgated under the Exchange Act as of this report. Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective as of the end of the period covered by this report to provide reasonable assurance that material information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms.
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Management is aware that there is a lack of segregation of certain duties at the Company due to the small number of employees with responsibility for general administrative and financial matters. This constitutes a deficiency in financial reporting. However, at this time, management has decided that considering the employees involved and the control procedures in place, the risks associated with such lack of segregation of duties are insignificant and the potential benefits of adding additional employees to clearly segregate duties do not justify the additional expenses associated with such increases. Management will periodically reevaluate this situation. If the volume of business increases and sufficient capital is secured, it is the Companys intention to further increase staffing to mitigate the current lack of segregation of duties within the general, administrative and financial functions.
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f), and for the assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. As defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer and effected by our Board, management, and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Our internal control over financial reporting is supported by policies and procedures that: (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect our transactions and dispositions of our assets; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Managements Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Management assessed our internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2010, the end of our fiscal year. Management based its assessment on criteria established in Internal Control Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Managements assessment included an evaluation of the design of our internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of those controls.
Based on this assessment, management has concluded that as of September 30, 2010, our internal control over financial reporting was ineffective to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
This annual report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Our report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit us to provide only Managements report in this Form 10-K.
Management is aware that we have a lack of segregation of certain duties due to the small number of employees with responsibility for general administrative and financial matters. This constitutes a deficiency in financial controls. However, at this time, management has decided that considering the employees involved and the control procedures in place, the risks associated with such lack of segregation of duties are insignificant and the potential benefits of adding additional employees to clearly segregate duties do not justify the expenses associated with such increases. Management will periodically reevaluate this situation. If the volume of business increases and sufficient capital is secured, it is our intention to further increase staffing to mitigate the current lack of segregation of duties within the general, administrative and financial functions.
A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues, if any, within a company have been detected. Such limitations include the fact that human judgment in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns in internal control can occur because of human failures, such as simple errors or mistakes or intentional circumvention of the established process.
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Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
During the three months ended September 30, 2010, there were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 or 15d-15 that was conducted during the last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
None.
PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The following table sets forth the names and ages of our current directors and executive officers, their principal offices and positions and the date each such person became a director or executive officer. Executive officers are elected annually by our Board of Directors. Each executive officer holds his office until he resigns, is removed by the Board or his successor is elected and qualified. Directors are elected annually by our stockholders at the annual meeting. Each director holds his office until his successor is elected and qualified or his earlier resignation or removal.
The following persons are the directors and executive officers of our company:
Name | Age | Position | Term |
Michael M. Lee | 47 | Chairman of the | since 8/8/1997 |
Board of Directors | |||
Chief Executive | |||
Officer, Chief | |||
Financial Officer | |||
Joseph Schwarz, | 56 | Chief Scientist | |
Ph.D | |||
Michael Weisspapir, | 54 | Chief Medical | |
MD, Ph.D | Officer | ||
Sandro Persia | 40 | Secretary/Treasurer | |
Dr. David Milroy | 59 | Director | since 4/15/2003 |
Dr. Ford Moore | 59 | Director | Since 4/15/2003 |
Michael M. Lee: Mr. Lee is a founder of the Company. Mr. Lee has over 15 years of business experience in the areas of high tech development, marketing and corporate finance. Mr. Lee holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario. Mr Lee founded the company in August 1997.
Joseph Schwarz, Ph.D.: Dr. Schwarz is our chief scientist. Dr. Schwarz has extensive experience in the research and development of controlled release drug delivery systems, his areas of expertise cover controlled delivery of drugs, colloidal and microcorpusculate drug delivery systems, submicron emulsions (SME), transdermal delivery (topical and systemic). Dr. Schwarz has published more than 40 articles in various scientific journals and has written over 20 patents and patent applications. Dr. Schwarz was the senior scientist at Pharmos Ltd., a publicly traded U.S. pharmaceuticals company from 1991 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was the senior scientist in the research and development department of TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ltd. From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Schwarz was the senior scientist of D-PHARM, a pharmaceuticals concern located in Israel. From 1998 to 1999 Dr. Schwarz served as a part time consultant to the Company and has been with the company since that time.
Michael Weisspapir, M.D., Ph.D.: Dr. Weisspapir has 19 years of successful experience in experimental medicine and extensive experience in interdisciplinary research and development in experimental pharmacology, immunopharmacology, toxicology and neuroscience. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Weisspapir held a variety of research positions at the University of Tel Aviv and Rabin Medical Center, Israel and the University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada.
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Sandro Persia: Mr. Persia joined Logic Tech Corp. in 1989 as Marketing Manager and promoted to Vice President in 1996. Mr. Persia has extensive business experience in high tech marketing and sales. Mr. Persia holds a diploma in business administration from Seneca College based in Toronto.
David Milroy, D.D.S. M.R.C.D. (C): Dr. Milroy is a Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon and has been in private practice in Richmond Hill, Woodbridge, and Port Hope, Ontario for the past twenty years. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1976 and a Residency in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Toronto, Toronto General and Toronto Doctors Hospitals in 1982.
Ford Moore, D.D.S. F.R.C.D. (C): Dr. Moore is a certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, is engaged in a full-time private practice in Newmarket, Ontario that he established in 1981. Dr. Moore graduated from the University of Toronto with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1976, and completed a hospital Residency in Oral Surgery and Anesthesia at Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Doctors Hospital and the University of Toronto in 1980.
All directors will hold office until the next annual stockholders meeting and until their successors have been elected or qualified or until their death, resignation, retirement, removal, or disqualification. Vacancies on the board will be filled by a majority vote of the remaining directors. Officers of the Company serve at the discretion of the board of directors.
Compensation of Directors
Our directors did not receive any compensation for the year ended September 30, 2010 or 2009. Directors are reimbursed for direct out-of-pocket expenses for attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors and for expenses incurred for and on behalf of the Company.
Board of Directors Committees
We were not able to attract an independent director with financial experience to sit on our board. Based on the size of the organization six full time employees, and 2 part time consultants, effective controls over financial reporting and internal financial controls can still be effectively maintained without an audit committee. The board of directors has not yet established a compensation committee.
Audit Committee
Although its By-laws provide for the appointment of one, the Company is not yet required to have an Audit Committee as a result of the fact that our common stock is not considered a listed security as defined in Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act. There are currently no audit committee members that meet the criteria of Financial Expert, however the company is actively working to appoint a Financial Expert in the current year.
COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(A) OF THE EXCHANGE ACT
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires directors, officers and persons who own more than 10% of a registered class of our equity securities to file reports of ownership and change in ownership with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Directors, officers and greater than 10% stockholders are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file.
Based solely upon our review of the copies of such forms that we received during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010, we believe that each person who at any time during the fiscal year was a director, officer, or beneficial owner of more than ten percent of our Common Stock complied with all Section 16(a) filing requirements during such fiscal year.
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CODE OF ETHICS
We have not adopted a formal code of ethics at this time, as our focus has been on our product development and enhancement. We do follow what are considered proper business ethics and labour law in Canada ensures that our employees are treated with a minimum standard of care and consideration.
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Summary Compensation
The table below summarizes the compensation received by the Company's Chief Executive Officer for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2010, 2009 and 2008 and each other executive officer of the Company who received compensation in excess of $40,000 for services rendered during any of those years ("named executive officers").
LONG TERM | ||||
COMPENSATION | ||||
SECURITIES | ||||
NAME AND | UNDERLYING | |||
PRINCIPAL POSITION | YEAR | SALARY ($) | BONUS ($) | OPTION (#) |
Michael M. Lee | 2010 | 120,000 | 0 | 0 |
President & C.E.O. | 2009 | 50,504 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 21,209 | 0 | 0 | |
Joseph Schwarz | 2010 | 37,415 | 0 | 0 |
Chief Scientist | 2009 | 43,198 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 89,614 | 0 | 0 | |
Michael Weisspapir | 2010 | 37,415 | 0 | 0 |
Chief Medical Scientist | 2009 | 43,198 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 82,023 | 0 | 0 |
Aggregated Option Exercises In Last Fiscal Year
and Fiscal
Year End Option Values
The following table sets forth certain information regarding exercises of stock options during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010 by the named executive officers. Value of unexercised options is considered to be the difference between exercise price and market price of $0.06 per share on September 30, 2010. No options were exercised by the named executive officers during fiscal 2010.
Value of Unexercised | ||||
Number of Exercisable | In-The-Money Options | |||
Options at Fiscal Year- | at | |||
End (#) | Fiscal Year-End ($) | |||
Shares acquired on | Value Realized (1) | Exercisable/ | Exercisable/ | |
Name | exercise (#) | ($) | Unexercisable | Unexercisable |
Michael M. Lee | - | - | 7,000,000/0 | 0/0 |
Joseph Schwarz | - | - | 3,000,000/0 | 0/0 |
Michael Weisspapir | - | - | 3,000,000/0 | 0/0 |
1. The value realized is the difference between Fair Market Value of the underlying stock at the time of exercise and the exercise price.
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2000 and 2003 Stock Option Plans - cancelled
After the exercising of options to purchase 700,000 shares of Common Stock on December 27, 2007 at an exercise price of $0.10, the 2000 Stock Option Plan was cancelled with the agreement of the option holders. Similarly the 2003 Stock Option Plan was cancelled in December 2007 with the agreement of the option holders. A total of 1,020,000 options to purchase Common Stock were cancelled under these plans.
2004 and 2006 Stock Option Plans - combined into the 2008 Stock Option Plan
The 2004 and 2006 Plans are administered by the board of directors, which determines which directors, officers, employees, consultants, scientific advisors and independent contractors of the Company are to be granted options, the number of shares subject to the options granted, the exercise price of the options, and certain terms and conditions of the options. The board of directors may delegate administration of the 2004 and 2006 Plans, including the power to grant options to persons who are not officers or directors of the Corporation, to a Stock Option Committee, composed of members of the board of directors. The board of directors, in its sole discretion, may amend, modify or terminate the 2004 and 2006 Plans at any time without restriction. However, no amendment may, without stockholder approval, increase the total number of shares of stock, which may be issued under the 2004 and 2006 Plans (other than increases to reflect stock dividends, stock splits or other relevant capitalization changes). There were 26,000,000 authorized shares of our Common Stock that are not issued or outstanding, reserved for implementation of the 2004 and 2006 Plans.
Options to purchase 2,730,000 shares of Common Stock were exercised on December 27, 2007 at an exercise price of $0.075. Immediately thereafter 6,640,000 options to purchase shares of Common Stock were cancelled with the agreement of the option holders.
2008 Stock Option Plan
At the Annual General Meeting of Stockholders held November 26, 2008 a majority of stockholders approved the amendment of our Stock Option Plans. The key changes reflected in the 2008 Plan: (i) combine the 2004 and 2006 Plans (the only remaining plans) into one plan for ease of administration; (ii) provide for a cap for the number of options allowed to be issued at 22,000,000; (iii) provide guidelines for exercise prices such that the exercise price of any newly granted option is never less than market value or in the case of any 10% holder, never less than 110% of market value on the day of grant; (iv) provide for a maximum term of 5 years for any option granted; (v) provide for a vesting schedule whereby vesting must occur over at least 18 months with no more than 1/6th of the options granted vesting in any 3 month period; (vi) provide for a maximum number of options to be granted to any one individual in any 12 month period to be no more than 5% of the issued and outstanding common stock; and (vii) provide for a maximum number of options to be granted to any Investor Relations party to be no more than 2% of the issued and outstanding common stock.
These changes provide for more restrictions as to the issuance of stock options than exist under the present 2004 and 2006 Plans. Secondly the combination of the two existing plans will result in less administration effort and fewer administrative costs. The above summary of the 2008 Plan is qualified in all respects by reference to the full text of the 2008 Plan, which was filed together with our Proxy Statement on or about October 1, 2008.
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Equity Compensation Plan Information
Number of securities remaining | |||
available | |||
Number of Securities to be issued | Weighted- Average Exercise | for future issuance under equity | |
upon exercise of | Price of | compensation plans | |
outstanding options, warrants, and | outstanding options, warrants, | (excluding securities reflected in | |
rights | and rights | the first two columns | |
Equity | |||
Compensation | |||
Plans | |||
Approved by | |||
Security Holders | 14,260,000 | $0.155 | 4,310,000 * |
Equity | |||
Compensation | |||
Plans | |||
Not Approved | |||
by Security | |||
Holders | None | None | None |
Total** | 14,260,000 | $0.155 | 4,310,000 |
* This amount represents options made available to management, employees and consultants as approved by stockholders at the Annual General Meeting held November 26, 2008. None of these options have been granted to date.
** The total number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued equals 18,570,000, which is less than the 22,000,000 maximum number that may be issued in accordance with the 2008 Plan. Once options have been exercised the maximum allowed to be issued is reduced accordingly. (22,000,000 less 3,430,000 exercised during fiscal 2008 = 18,570,000)
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
The following table sets forth information with respect to ownership of the Companys securities by its officers and directors and by any person (including any group) who is the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Companys Common Stock. The total number of shares authorized is 250,000,000 shares of Common Stock, each of which has a par value of $0.0001. As of September 30, 2010 there were 94,635,047 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding.
Name and Address | Amount and Nature of | Percent of |
Of Owner | Beneficial Owner | Class |
Michael Lee (1) | 19,089,689 shares | 20.17% |
Joseph Schwarz (2) | 602,500 shares | 0.64% |
Ford Moore (3) | 4,158,179 shares | 4.39% |
Michael Weisspapir (2) | 457,500 shares | 0.48% |
David Milroy (3) | 2,556,933 shares | 2.70% |
Sandro Persia (2) | 18,000 shares | 0.02% |
All directors and officers as a group (7 persons) | 26,882,801 shares | 28.41% |
(1) Director and Officer; (2) Officer; (3) Director
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
Mr. Lee, CEO and director loaned us $2,430 during the year ended September 30, 2010. Interest accrued on all loans outstanding to Mr. Lee totalled $12,198 as of September 30, 2010. The Company also repaid $2,000 in principal to extinguish one of the Promissory Notes owing to Mr. Lee during fiscal 2010.
Except as disclosed above, during the past two years, there have been no other material transactions, series of similar transactions or currently proposed transactions, to which the Company was or is to be a party, and in which any director or executive officer, or any security holder who is known to the Company to own of record or beneficially more than five percent of the Company's Common Stock, or any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing persons, had a material interest.
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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
Audit Fees: For the year ended September 30, 2010 we incurred $22,600 in external audit fees, and quarterly reviews in connection with statutory and regulatory filings to our principal accountants as compared to approximately $24,775 for the year ended September 30, 2009.
Audit-Related Fees: For the years ended September 30, 2010 and 2009 we incurred no fees for assurance and related services by the principal accountant.
Tax Fees: For the year ended September 30, 2010 and September 30, 2009 we incurred NIL tax fees with our principal accountants.
All Other Fees: For the year ended September 30, 2010 we incurred NIL in other fees with our principal accountants related to our application to the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture market (for the year ended September 30, 2009 we incurred $1,613).
Audit Committees Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures: The Company currently does not have a designated Audit Committee, and accordingly, the Companys Board of Directors policy is to pre-approve all audit and permissible non-audit services provided by the independent auditors. These services may include audit services, audit-related services, tax services and other services. The independent auditors and management are required to periodically report to the Companys Board of Directors regarding the extent of the services to be provided. Pre-approval is generally provided prior to the service commencing.
PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS
Exhibits required to be attached by Item 601 of Regulation S-B are listed in the Index to Exhibits beginning after Item 14 of this Form 10-K, which is incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
DATED: December 31, 2010
ALPHARx, INC.
By: /s/ Michael M. Lee
Michael M. Lee,
President
and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant, in the capacities, and on the dates, indicated.
DATED: December 31, 2010
ALPHARx, INC.
Directors:
/s/ Michael M. Lee
Michael M. Lee,
Director and
Chairman of the Board
/s/ David Milroy
David Milroy,
Director
/s/ Ford Moore
Ford Moore,
Director
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT | DESCRIPTION |
NO. | |
3(i)(a) | Certificate of Incorporation dated August 8, 1997 (incorporated by reference to the Form 10-KSB filed on June 16, 2000). |
3(i)(b) | Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation dated January 26, 2000 (incorporated by reference to the Form 10- KSB filed on June 16, 2000). |
3(i)(c) | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation dated July 20, 2000 (incorporated by reference to the Form 10-KSB filed on December 31, 2001). |
3(ii) | Bylaws dated August 11, 1997 (incorporated by reference to the Form 10-KSB filed on June 16, 2000). |
10.1 | 2000 Stock Option Plan adopted June 20, 2000 (incorporated by reference to the Form 10-KSB filed on December 31, 2001). |
10.2 | Manufacturing and Distribution License Agreement with Industria Farmaceutica Andromaco, S.A. de C.V. (incorporated by reference to the Form 10KSB filed on July 8, 2005). |
10.3 | 2004 Stock Option Plan adopted March 29, 2005 (incorporated by reference to the 10KSB filed on December 29, 2005) |
10.4 | 2006 Stock Option Plan adopted March 29, 2006 (incorporated by reference to the 10KSB filed on December 21, 2006) |
10.5 | 2008 Stock Option Plan adopted November 26, 2008 (incorporated by reference to the 10K filed on December 22, 2008) |
31.1 | Certification of C.E.O. Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
31.2 | Certification of Interim C.F.O. Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
32.1 | Certification of Michael Lee pursuant to Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 United States Code. |
32.2 | Certification of Michael Lee pursuant to Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 United States Code. |
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ALPHARx, INC.
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 AND 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR 2010 AND 2009 | PAGE (S) |
REPORTS OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMS | F-2 |
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS FOR 2010 AND 2009 | F-4 |
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS FOR 2010 AND 2009 | F-5 |
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIENCY FOR 2010 AND 2009 | F-6 |
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS FOR 2010 AND 2009 | F-7 |
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | F-8-22 |
F - 1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of AlphaRx, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of AlphaRx, Inc. (incorporated in the State of Delaware) as at September 30, 2009 and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, cash flows and stockholders deficiency for the year then ended. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Companys management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of AlphaRx, Inc. as at September 30, 2009 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
The company is not required to have nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the companys internal controls over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Managements plans in regard to these matters is also described in Note 1. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern, certain assets and liabilities will have to be adjusted to their liquidation values.
SCHWARTZ LEVITSKY FELDMAN LLP | |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Chartered Accountants |
November 11, 2009 | Licensed Public Accountants |
F 2
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of AlphaRx, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of AlphaRx, Inc. (incorporated in the State of Delaware) as at September 30, 2010 and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, cash flows and stockholders deficiency for the year then ended. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Companys management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of AlphaRx, Inc. as at September 30, 2010 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
The company is not required to have nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the companys internal controls over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Managements plans in regard to these matters is also described in note 1. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern, certain assets and liabilities will have to be adjusted to their liquidation values.
ALBERT WONG & CO | |
Hong Kong, China | Certified Public Accountants |
December 31, 2010 |
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ALPHARx, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
AS AT SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 AND, 2009
(All amounts in US Dollars)
2010 | 2009 | |||||
CURRENT ASSETS | ||||||
Cash and Cash Equivalents | $ | 16,264 | $ | 14,006 | ||
Accounts Receivable (Note 3) | 147,839 | 42,330 | ||||
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS | 164,103 | 56,336 | ||||
PROPERTY, PLANT and EQUIPMENT, net (Note 4) | 43,078 | 78,237 | ||||
TOTAL ASSETS | 207,181 | 134,573 | ||||
CURRENT LIABILITIES | ||||||
Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities (Note 5) | 520,342 | 414,872 | ||||
Notes Payable (Note 6) | 790,671 | 585,284 | ||||
Deferred Revenue | 0 | 35,000 | ||||
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES | 1,311,013 | 1,035,156 | ||||
Going Concern (Note 1) | ||||||
Commitments (Note 8) | ||||||
Related Party Transactions (Note 13) | ||||||
STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIENCY | ||||||
Common Stock: $ 0.0001 par value, | ||||||
Authorized: 250,000,000 shares; Issued and outstanding | ||||||
September 30, 2010: 94,635,047 and 2009: 92,375,732(Notes 9,11,12) | 9,464 | 9,238 | ||||
Additional paid-in capital | 17,500,855 | 17,052,076 | ||||
Deficit | (18,789,891 | ) | (18,061,820 | ) | ||
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | (2,284 | ) | (2,317 | ) | ||
Non-controlling Interest (Note 7) | 178,024 | 102,240 | ||||
TOTAL DEFICIENCY | (1,103,832 | ) | (900,583 | ) | ||
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND DEFICIENCY | $ | 207,181 | $ | 134,573 |
Signed: Michael Lee | Signed: Dr. Ford Moore |
Director | Director |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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ALPHARx, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30,
2010 AND 2009
(All amounts in US Dollars)
2010 | 2009 | |||||
License Fees and Royalties | $ | 242,309 | $ | 137,223 | ||
Consulting Revenues | 84,036 | 240,257 | ||||
TOTAL REVENUES | 326,345 | 377,480 | ||||
General and Administrative Expenses | 795,416 | 499,339 | ||||
Research and Development Expenses | 151,165 | 204,731 | ||||
Depreciation | 39,503 | 61,288 | ||||
LOSS FROM OPERATIONS | (659,739 | ) | (387,878 | ) | ||
OTHER EXPENSES | ||||||
Interest Expense, net | (92,062 | ) | (54,154 | ) | ||
LOSS BEFORE INCOME TAXES | (751,801 | ) | (442,032 | ) | ||
Income Tax (Note 10) | - | - | ||||
LOSS FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | (751,801 | ) | (442,032 | ) | ||
Gain from Operations of Discontinued Component | - | - | ||||
NET LOSS BEFORE NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST | (751,801 | ) | (442,032 | ) | ||
Non-Controlling Interest in Loss of consolidated subsidiaries | (23,730 | ) | (156 | ) | ||
NET LOSS | $ | (728,071 | ) | $ | (441,876 | ) |
Translation Adjustment | (33 | ) | (4,373 | ) | ||
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS | (728,038 | ) | (437,503 | ) | ||
Per Share Data | ||||||
Net Loss per Share, basic and diluted | $ | (0.01 | ) | $ | (0.01 | ) |
Weighted Average Number of Common Shares Outstanding | 92,375,732 | 92,371,192 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
F - 5
ALPHARx, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES
IN STOCKHOLDERS DEFICIENCY
FOR THE YEARS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
AND 2009
(All amounts in US Dollars)
Common Stock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accumulated | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Additional | Other Com- | AlphaRx Inc. | Non- | |||||||||||||||||||||
Number of | Paid in | prehensive | Stockholders | controlling | Total | |||||||||||||||||||
Shares | Amount | Capital | Loss | Deficiency | Deficiency | Interest | Deficiency | |||||||||||||||||
Balance as of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
September | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30, 2009 | 92,371,192 | $ | 9,238 | $ | 17,052,076 | (2,317 | ) | (18,061,820 | ) | (1,002,823 | ) | 102,240 | (900,583 | ) | ||||||||||
Warrants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
issued for | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
services | 262,090 | 262,090 | 262,090 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Debt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conversion |
73,723 |
73,723 | 73,723 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Addl pickup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
of Equity by | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
NCI | 99,514 | 99,514 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock issued | 2,263,855 | 226 | 112,966 | |||||||||||||||||||||
for Service | 113,192 | 113,192 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Currency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Translation | 33 | 33 | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Non- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
controlling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
interest | (23,730 | ) | (23,730 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Net Loss 2010 | (728,071 | ) | (728,071 | ) | (728,071 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Balance as of | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
September | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30, 2010 | 94,635,047 | $ | 9,464 | $ | 17,500,855 | $ | (2,284 | ) | (18,789,891 | ) | $ | (1,281,856 | ) | $ | 178,024 | $ | (1,103,832 | ) |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
F - 6
ALPHARx, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH
FLOWS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 AND 2009
(All
amounts in US Dollars)
2010 | 2009 | |||||
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES | ||||||
Net Loss | $ | (728,071 | ) | $ | (441,876 | ) |
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities: | ||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 39,503 | 61,288 | ||||
Stock based compensation | 262,090 | 73,725 | ||||
Changes in assets and liabilities: | ||||||
Decrease/(Increase) in Accounts Receivable | (105,509 | ) | (33,901 | ) | ||
Accrued Interest on Notes Payable | - | 46,131 | ||||
Increase/(Decrease) in Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities | 105,473 | 98,566 | ||||
Increase in Deferred Revenue | (35,000 | ) | 35,000 | |||
Non Controlling Interest | 75,781 | (156 | ) | |||
NET CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES | (385,733 | ) | (161,223 | ) | ||
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES | ||||||
Purchase of Machinery and Equipment | (4,344 | ) | - | |||
NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES | (4,344 | ) | - | |||
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES | ||||||
Issuance of Common Stock | 186,916 | - | ||||
Issuance of Notes Payable, net of repayments | 205,387 | 138,717 | ||||
NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES | 392,303 | 138,717 | ||||
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents | 32 | 11,889 | ||||
NET DECREASE IN CASH | 2,258 | (10,617 | ) | |||
CASH and cash equivalents, beginning of year | 14,006 | 24,623 | ||||
CASH and cash equivalents, end of year | $ | 16,264 | $ | 14,006 | ||
SUPPLEMENTARY DISCLOSURE: | ||||||
Income Tax Paid | $ | - | $ | - | ||
Interest Paid | $ | 2,119 | $ | 6,227 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
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ALPHARX INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 AND 2009
(All amounts in US
Dollars)
NOTE 1. NATURE OF BUSINESS AND GOING CONCERN
ALPHARX, INC. (the Company) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on August 8, 1997. AlphaRx Inc. is an emerging pharmaceutical company specializing in the formulation of therapeutic products using proprietary drug delivery technologies.
Effective June 30, 2006, AlphaRx International Holdings Limited (a British Virgin Island company and an 80% owned subsidiary of AlphaRx Inc.) (AIH) acquired 100% of Alpha Life Sciences Ltd. (ALS) for a nominal amount and the assumption of approximately $63,000 of related party liabilities. ALS is primarily involved in research and development of drugs in the Asian market.
Effective June 22, 2006, New Super Limited, an independent Hong Kong based corporation, subscribed for 1,500 shares of Common Stock of AIH, previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.
The consolidated financial statements reflect the activities of the Company, 100% of AlphaRx Canada Limited and 85% of AIH and ALS (AIHs wholly-owned subsidiary) accounted for on a self-sustained basis. All material inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated. Where the Company owns less than 100% of a consolidated entity the net assets belonging to the minority owners are accounted for as a non-controlling interest.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. Accordingly, they do not include any adjustments relating to the realization of the carrying value of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern. Factors relating to going concern issues include working capital deficiency, operating losses, stockholders deficit, and continued reliance on external funding sources. Continuance of the Company as a going concern is dependent on its future profitability and on the on-going support of its stockholders, affiliates and creditors. In order to mitigate the going concern issues, the Company is constantly pursuing new business arrangements and striving to achieve profitability, and seeking capital funding on an ongoing basis via the issuance of Promissory Notes, and private placements. The Company has contracted with several parties for research and development consulting services that could also result in future license fees and royalties. The Company has one licensee that provides an ongoing royalty stream for its Indaflex product. The Company is constantly seeking out collaborative arrangements with third parties in anticipation of license fees, royalties, milestone payments and consulting services.
NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
This summary of significant accounting policies is presented to assist in understanding the Companys consolidated financial statements. The consolidated financial statements and notes are representations of the Companys management who is responsible for their integrity and objectivity. These accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America and have been consistently applied in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements.
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Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash includes cash on hand, and amounts on deposit with banks. Cash equivalents include any other highly liquid cash investments purchased with maturity of three months or less which are readily convertible to cash. The carrying amount approximates fair value because of the immediate liquidity or short maturity of these instruments. As at September 30, 2010 and 2009 the Company had only cash on deposit and petty cash on hand.
Accounts Receivable
The Company segregates trade receivables resulting from revenues generated from non-trade or other receivables. An allowance for bad debts is estimated for each type of receivable on a periodic basis based on experience with the respective parties.
Financial Instruments
a) Fair Value
Fair value estimates of financial instruments are made at a specific point in time, based on relevant information about financial markets and specific financial instruments. As these estimates are subjective in nature, involving uncertainties and matters of judgement, they cannot be determined with complete accuracy. Changes in assumptions can significantly affect estimated fair values. The carrying values of cash, accounts receivable, notes payable, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities approximate their fair values because of the short-term nature of these instruments.
b) Interest rate, currency and credit risk
The Company is not subject to significant credit and interest risks arising from these financial instruments. The Company may be subject to significant currency risk as some of the external promissory notes are denominated in Canadian dollars or Hong Kong dollars.
Long-Term Financial Instruments
The fair value of each of the Companys long-term financial assets is based on the amount of future cash flows associated with each instrument discounted using an estimate of what the Company's current borrowing rate for similar instruments of comparable maturity would be.
It is of the managements opinion that the Company is not exposed to significant interest rate risk, credit risk or currency risks arising from these financial instruments.
Foreign Currency Translation
The Company maintains the books and records of AlphaRx Canada Ltd. in Canadian dollars, and the books and records of Alpha Life Sciences Ltd. and AlphaRx International Holdings Ltd. in Hong Kong dollars, their respective functional currencies. The records of these companies are converted to US dollars, the reporting currency. The translation method used is the current rate method. Under the current rate method all assets and liabilities are translated at the current rate, stockholders equity accounts are translated at historical rates and revenues and expenses are translated at average rates for the year. Cumulative net translation adjustments related to equity accounts are included as a separate component of stockholders deficiency.
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Earnings or Loss Per Share
Basic earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the year. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding plus Common Stock equivalents (if dilutive) related to stock options and warrants for each year.
Income Taxes
The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included in the financial statement or tax returns. Deferred income taxes are provided using the liability method. Under the liability method, deferred income taxes are recognized for all significant temporary differences between the tax and financial statement bases of assets and liabilities.
Effects of changes in enacted tax laws on deferred tax assets and liabilities are reflected as adjustments to tax expense in the period of enactment. Deferred tax assets may be reduced, if deemed necessary based on a judgmental assessment of available evidence, by a valuation allowance for the amount of any tax benefits which are more likely, based on current circumstances, not expected to be realized.
Property Plant and Equipment
Property plant and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated by using the Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System Method for financial reporting as well as for income tax purposes at rates based on the following estimated useful lives:
Furniture and Fixtures | 7 years |
Machinery and Equipment | 3 - 7 years |
Leasehold Improvements | 10 years |
The Company capitalizes expenditures that materially increase assets lives and expenses ordinary repairs and maintenance to operations as incurred. When assets are sold or disposed or otherwise fully depreciated, the cost and related accumulated depreciation is removed from the accounts and any gain or loss is included in the statement of income and retained earnings.
Research and Development
All research and development costs are charged to expense as incurred. These costs include in house and contracted research and development, travel to explore and evaluate new product candidates, raw materials, lab supplies and other costs related directly to research and development of new and existing drug product candidates.
Revenue Recognition
Revenues related to license fees and royalties are recognized when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the fee is fixed or determinable, and collectability is probable. Should there be any future obligations or deliverables related to the license fees, revenue is deferred and recognized only when those obligations and or deliverables have been satisfied. Any advance payments or deposits received in relation to license fees and other fees are deferred until those obligations or deliverables have been satisfied. Royalty payments are not received in advance but rather, are paid to the Company based on previous period sales by licensees. Royalty revenue is accrued in the period earned based on estimates or actual licensed sales during the period in question.
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Consulting revenues are recognized as the services are rendered to the customer, and invoiced on a periodic basis or upon completion of the consulting services depending on contract terms and conditions.
Sales represent the invoiced value of goods supplied to customers. Revenues are recognized upon the passage of title to the customers, provided that the collection of the proceeds from sales is reasonably assured. A reserve for returns is considered periodically based on actual or anticipated returns from customers. The Company no longer sells any products directly to end-users.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates in amounts than may be material to the consolidated financial statements. Management believes that these estimates and assumptions used are reasonable. These estimates are reviewed periodically and as adjustments become necessary, they are reported in earnings in the period in which they become known. Estimates were used in determining the amounts of accrued liabilities, useful lives of property plant and equipment, stock based compensation, and valuation allowances.
Long-Lived Assets
The Company reviews long-lived assets to be held and used for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. During the year management determined that an impairment test was necessary and used its best estimate of the undiscounted cash flows to evaluate the carrying amount and have determined that no impairment has occurred.
Concentrations of Credit Risks and Revenues
The Companys receivables are unsecured and are generally due in 30 Days. Reserves for uncollectible receivables are determined by the Company periodically based on best estimates available and historical data, as well as the economic and financial status of its debtors. Investment in marketable securities carry normal market risk of fluctuation in the price of securities traded on recognized stock exchanges as well as liquidity and foreign exchange risks.
Currently, the Company does not have a diverse customer base. The Company relies on one licensee for all of its royalty revenues and has another licensee attempting to commercialize one of its product candidates. Should these licensees discontinue sales of our products, or should commercialization efforts of our product candidates be curtailed, our revenues could be adversely impacted.
Investment in Joint Venture
The Company holds an indirect 42.5% interest in AlphaAP Inc. (AAP), a joint venture established between the Company (via its AIH subsidiary) and Basin Industrial Limited (an independent third party). As the Company contributes no funds, and does not provide management or direction to the joint venture, the Companys interest in the joint venture is not consolidated into the financial statements. AIH will receive a 5% royalty on all revenues generated by AAP. This joint venture is currently inactive.
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Stock Based Compensation
The Company recognizes compensation cost for third party and employee services rendered in exchange for an equity instrument award based on the fair value of the award on the date of grant. The Company uses the Black-Sholes option-pricing model in determining the fair value of options and warrants. In determining the expected volatility, the Company bases this assumption on the historical volatilities of the Companys common stock over the expected life of the stock acquisition rights.
Comprehensive Income
Comprehensive income is net income plus certain items that are recorded directly to stockholders equity, bypassing net income. With the exception of foreign exchange gains and losses, the Company has no other components in its comprehensive income (loss) accounts.
Recent Pronouncements
FASB ASC TOPIC 805 Business Combinations. The objective of this topic is to enhance the information that an entity provides in its financial reports about a business combination and its effects. The Topic mandates: (i) how the acquirer recognizes and measures the assets acquired, liabilities assumed and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree; (ii) what information to disclose in its financial reports and; (iii) recognition and measurement criteria for goodwill acquired. This Topic is effective for any acquisitions made on or after December 15, 2008. The adoption of this Topic did not have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
FASB ASC TOPIC 810 Noncontrolling Interests. The objective of this Topic is to improve the relevance, comparability, and transparency of the financial information that a reporting entity provides in its consolidated financial statements by establishing accounting and reporting standards that require: (i) the ownership interests in subsidiaries held by parties other than the parent be clearly identified, labeled, and presented in the consolidated statement of financial position within equity, but separate from the parent's equity; (ii) the amount of consolidated net income attributable to the parent and to the noncontrolling interest be clearly identified and presented on the face of the consolidated statement of income; (iii) changes in a parent's ownership interest while the parent retains its controlling financial interest in its subsidiary be accounted for consistently; (iv) when a subsidiary is deconsolidated, any retained noncontrolling equity investment in the former subsidiary be initially measured at fair value. The gain or loss on the deconsolidation of the subsidiary is measured using the fair value of any noncontrolling equity investment rather than the carrying amount of that retained investment and; (v) entities provide sufficient disclosures that clearly identify and distinguish between the interests of the parent and the interests of the non-controlling owners. This Topic is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning on or after December 15, 2008. Earlier adoption is prohibited. The adoption of this Topic is not expected to have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
FASB ASC TOPIC 815 Derivatives and Hedging. The use and complexity of derivative instruments and hedging activities have increased significantly over the past several years. This Topic requires enhanced disclosures about an entity's derivative and hedging activities and thereby improves the transparency of financial reporting. This Topic is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008, with early application encouraged. The adoption of this Topic is not expected to have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
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FASB ASC TOPIC 944 – “Financial Services – Insurance.” Diversity exists in practice in accounting for financial guarantee insurance contracts by insurance enterprises. That diversity results in inconsistencies in the recognition and measurement of claim liabilities because of differing views about when a loss has been incurred. This Topic requires that an insurance enterprise recognize a claim liability prior to an event of default (insured event) when there is evidence that credit deterioration has occurred in an insured financial obligation. This Topic is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and all interim periods within those fiscal years, except for some disclosures about the insurance enterprise's risk-management activities. The adoption of this Topic is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements and disclosures.
FASB ASC TOPIC 855 - “Subsequent Events.” In May 2009, the FASB issued Topic 855, which establish general standards of accounting and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. In particular, this Topic sets forth : (i) the period after the balance sheet date during which management of a reporting entity should evaluate events or transactions that may occur for potential recognition or disclosure in the financial statements, (ii) the circumstances under which an entity should recognize events or transactions occurring after the balance sheet date in its financial statements, (iii) the disclosures that an entity should make about events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date. This Topic should be applied to the accounting and disclosure of subsequent events. This Topic does not apply to subsequent events or transactions that are within the scope of other applicable accounting standards that provide different guidance on the accounting treatment for subsequent events or transactions. This Topic was effective for interim and annual periods ending after June 15, 2009, which was September 30, 2009 for the Company. The adoption of this Topic did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements and disclosures.
FASB ASC TOPIC 105 - “The FASB Accounting Standard Codification and the Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.” In June 2009, the FASB issued Topic 105, which became the source of authoritative GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. On the effective date of this Topic, the Codification will supersede all then-existing non-SEC accounting and reporting standards. All other non-SEC accounting literature not included in the Codification will become non-authoritative. This Topic identifies the sources of accounting principles and the framework for selecting the principles used in preparing the financial statements of nongovernmental entities that are presented in conformity with GAAP and arranged these sources of GAAP in a hierarchy for users to apply accordingly. This Topic is effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. The adoption of this topic did not have a material impact on the Company’s disclosure of the financial statements.
FASB ASC TOPIC 320 - “Recognition and Presentation of Other-Than-Temporary Impairments.” In April 2009, the FASB issued Topic 320 amends the other-than-temporary impairment guidance in GAAP for debt securities to make the guidance more operational and to improve the presentation and disclosure of other-than-temporary impairments on debt and equity securities in the financial statements. This Topic does not amend existing recognition and measurement guidance related to other-than-temporary impairments of equity securities. The Topic is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009, with early adoption permitted for periods ending after March 15, 2009. Earlier adoption for periods ending before March 15, 2009, is not permitted. This Topic does not require disclosures for earlier periods presented for comparative purposes at initial adoption. In periods after initial adoption, this Topic requires comparative disclosures only for periods ending after initial adoption. The adoption of this Topic did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements and disclosures.
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FASB ASC TOPIC 860 - “Accounting for Transfer of Financial Assets and Extinguishment of Liabilities.” In June 2009, the FASB issued additional guidance under Topic 860 which improves the relevance, representational faithfulness, and comparability of the information that a reporting entity provides in its financial statements about a transfer of financial assets; the effects of a transfer on its financial position, financial performance, and cash flows; and a transferor’s continuing involvement, if any, in transferred financial assets. This additional guidance requires that a transferor recognize and initially measure at fair value all assets obtained (including a transferors beneficial interest) and liabilities incurred as a result of a transfer of financial assets accounted for as a sale. Enhanced disclosures are required to provide financial statement users with greater transparency about transfers of financial assets and a transferors continuing involvement with transferred financial assets. This additional guidance must be applied as of the beginning of each reporting entitys first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009, for interim periods within that first annual reporting period and for interim and annual reporting periods thereafter. Earlier application is prohibited. This additional guidance must be applied to transfers occurring on or after the effective date. The adoption of this Topic is not expected to have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
FASB ASC TOPIC 810 - Consolidation of Variables Interest and Special Purpose Entities. In June 2009, the FASB issued Topic 810, which requires an enterprise to perform an analysis to determine whether the enterprises variable interest or interests give it a controlling financial interest in a variable interest entity. This analysis identifies the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity as the enterprise that has both of the following characteristics: (i) The power to direct the activities of a variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entitys economic performance and (ii) The obligation to absorb losses of the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity or the right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity. Additionally, an enterprise is required to assess whether it has an implicit financial responsibility to ensure that a variable interest entity operates as designed when determining whether it has the power to direct the activities of the variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entitys economic performance. This Topic requires ongoing reassessments of whether an enterprise is the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity and eliminate the quantitative approach previously required for determining the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity, which was based on determining which enterprise absorbs the majority of the entitys expected losses, receives a majority of the entitys expected residual returns, or both. This Topic is effective as of the beginning of each reporting entitys first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009, for interim periods within that first annual reporting period, and for interim and annual reporting periods thereafter. Earlier application is prohibited. The adoption of this Topic is not expected to have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
FASB ASC TOPIC 820 - Fair Value measurement and Disclosures, an Accounting Standard Update. In September 2009, the FASB issued this Update to amendments to Subtopic 82010, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures. Overall, for the fair value measurement of investments in certain entities that calculates net asset value per share (or its equivalent). The amendments in this Update permit, as a practical expedient, a reporting entity to measure the fair value of an investment that is within the scope of the amendments in this Update on the basis of the net asset value per share of the investment (or its equivalent) if the net asset value of the investment (or its equivalent) is calculated in a manner consistent with the measurement principles of Topic 946 as of the reporting entitys measurement date, including measurement of all or substantially all of the underlying investments of the investee in accordance with Topic 820. The amendments in this Update also require disclosures by major category of investment about the attributes of investments within the scope of the amendments in this Update, such as the nature of any restrictions on the investors ability to redeem its investments at the measurement date, any unfunded commitment, and the investment strategies of the investees. The major category of investment is required to be determined on the basis of the nature and risks of the investment in a manner consistent with the guidance for major security types in GAAP on investments in debt and equity securities in paragraph 320-10-50-lB. The disclosures are required for all investments within the scope of the amendments in this Update regardless of whether the fair value of the investment is measured using the practical expedient. The amendments in this Update apply to all reporting entities that hold an investment that is required or permitted to be measured or disclosed at fair value on a recurring or non recurring basis and, as of the reporting entitys measurement date, if the investment meets certain criteria The amendments in this Update are effective for the interim and annual periods ending after December 15, 2009. Early application is permitted in financial statements for earlier interim and annual periods that have not been issued. The adoption of this Update is not expected to have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
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FASB ASC TOPIC 740 - Income Taxes, an Accounting Standard Update. In September 2009, the FASB issued this Update to address the need for additional implementation guidance on accounting for uncertainty in income taxes. For entities that are currently applying the standards for accounting for uncertainty in income taxes, the guidance and disclosure amendments are effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. The adoption of this Update did not have a material impact on the Companys financial statements and disclosures.
Recent Issued Standards
FASB ASC Update No. 2009-05 - In August 2009, the FASB issued ASC Update No. 2009-05, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Measuring Liabilities at Fair Value (ASC Update No. 2009-05). This update amends ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures and provides further guidance on measuring the fair value of a liability. The guidance establishes the types of valuation techniques to be used to value a liability when a quoted market price in an active market for the identical liability is not available, such as the use of an identical or similar liability when traded as an asset. The guidance also further clarifies that a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability at the measurement date and the quoted price for the identical liability when traded as an asset in an active market when no adjustments to the quoted price of the asset are required are both Level 1 fair value measurements. If adjustments are required to be applied to the quoted price, it results in a level 2 or 3 fair value measurement. The guidance provided in the update is effective for the first reporting period (including interim periods) beginning after issuance. The Company does not expect that the implementation of ASC Update No. 2009-05 will have a material effect on its financial position or results of operations.
FASB ASC Update No. 2009-12 - In September 2009, the FASB issued ASC Update No. 2009-12, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Investments in Certain Entities that Calculate Net Asset Value per Share (or Its Equivalent) (ASC Update No. 2009-12). This update sets forth guidance on using the net asset value per share provided by an investee to estimate the fair value of an alternative investment. Specifically, the update permits a reporting entity to measure the fair value of this type of investment on the basis of the net asset value per share of the investment (or its equivalent) if all or substantially all of the underlying investments used in the calculation of the net asset value is consistent with ASC 820. The update also requires additional disclosures by each major category of investment, including, but not limited to, fair value of underlying investments in the major category, significant investment strategies, redemption restrictions, and unfunded commitments related to investments in the major category. The amendments in this update are effective for interim and annual periods ending after December 15, 2009 with early application permitted. The Company does not expect that the implementation of ASC Update No. 2009-12 will have a material effect on its financial position or results of operations.
In March 2010, the FASB issued new accounting guidance on embedded credit derivatives. This new accounting guidance clarifies the scope exception for embedded credit derivatives and defines which embedded credit derivatives should be evaluated for bifurcation and separate accounting. The Company does not expect that the implementation of this new accounting guidance will have a material effect on its financial position or results of operations.
FASB ASC Update No. 2010-22 - The FASB has issued FASB Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2010-22, Accounting for Various Topics. ASU 2010-22 amends various SEC paragraphs in the FASB Accounting Standards CodificationTM (Codification) based on external comments received and the issuance of Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 112 , which amends or rescinds portions of certain SAB topics. Specifically, SAB 112 was issued to bring existing SEC guidance into conformity with: Codification Topic 805, Business Combinations (originally issued as FASB Statement No. 141 (Revised December 2007), Business Combinations); and Codification Topic 810, Consolidation (originally issued as FASB Statement No. 160, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements).
FASB ASC Update No. 2010-29 - The FASB has issued ASU 2010-29, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Disclosure of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations. This amendment affects any public entity as defined by Topic 805, Business Combinations, that enters into business combinations that are material on an individual or aggregate basis. The comparative financial statements should present and disclose revenue and earnings of the combined entity as though the business combination(s) that occurred during the current year had occurred as of the beginning of the comparable prior annual reporting period only. The amendments also expand the supplemental pro forma disclosures to include a description of the nature and amount of material, nonrecurring pro forma adjustments directly attributable to the business combination included in the reported pro forma revenue and earnings. The amendments are effective prospectively for business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2010. The adoption of the ASU 2010-29 will not have material impact to the financial statements of the Company.
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NOTE 3. ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
2010 | 2009 | |||||
Trade Accounts Receivable | $ | 142,611 | $ | 40,350 | ||
Other Accounts Receivable | 5,228 | 1,980 | ||||
$ | 147,839 | $ | 42,330 |
The Company carries accounts receivable at the amounts it deems to be collectible. Accordingly, the Company provides allowances for accounts receivable it deems to be uncollectible based on managements best estimates. Recoveries are recognized in the period they are received. The ultimate amount of accounts receivable that becomes uncollectible could differ from those estimated. No reserve for bad debts was established as at September 30, 2010 and 2009 as all amounts were deemed collectible.
NOTE 4. PROPERTY, PLANT & EQUIPMENT
2010 | 2009 | |||||
Leasehold Improvements | $ | - | $ | - | ||
Furniture and Fixtures | 10,870 | 16,140 | ||||
Machinery and Equipment | 181,060 | 198,988 | ||||
COST | 191,930 | 215,128 | ||||
Less: Accumulated depreciation/amortization | ||||||
Leasehold Improvements | - | - | ||||
Furniture and Fixtures | 10,093 | 12,837 | ||||
Machinery and Equipment | 138,759 | 124,054 | ||||
148,852 | 136,891 | |||||
NET | $ | 43,078 | $ | 78,237 |
NOTE 5. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities are comprised of the following:
2010 | 2009 | |||||
Accounts Payable | $ | 474,236 | $ | 303,010 | ||
Accrued Liabilities for services rendered but | ||||||
not invoiced as of September 30, 2010 and 2009: | ||||||
Professional services (legal, audit, financial) | 46,106 | 20,795 | ||||
Management Salary | - | 68,225 | ||||
Other | - | 22,842 | ||||
$ | 520,342 | $ | 414,872 |
NOTE 6. NOTES PAYABLE
The Company and its subsidiaries issued $191,749 and $120,533 in promissory notes, net of repayments during the year ended September 30, 2010 and 2009 respectively. The newly issued and existing promissory notes bear interest at rates of 8% - 12% per annum and are repayable on or before the first anniversary date of issuance.
Included in Promissory Notes payable are $43,246 in Notes Payable including accrued interest of $12,198 to Michael Lee CEO at September 30, 2010. (As at September 30, 2009 Notes Payable plus accrued interest of $12,400 owing to Mr. Lee totalled $54,400). See also Related Party Transactions Note 14.
September 30, | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||
Promissory Notes Issued and outstanding, | $ | 663,765 | $ | 520,551 | 385,063 | ||||
net of repayments and conversions: | |||||||||
Interest accrued | 126,906 | 64,733 | 18,602 | ||||||
Promissory Notes Payable | $ | 790,671 | $ | 585,284 | 403,665 |
NOTE 7. NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST
On June 22, 2006, AlphaRx International Holdings Ltd. (AIH), previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company issued 1,500 shares of its Common Stock to New Super Limited (NSL), an independent Hong Kong based corporation, at a price of approximately $HK 6,667 per share or $HK 10 million in cash. (US $1,288,826). As a result AIHs issued and outstanding shares were increased to 10,000 and the Companys interest in AIH was reduced to 85%. With the consolidation of only 85% of AIH, a non-controlling interest was established, representing amounts owing to the minority shareholder. The capital infusion into AIH is accounted for as additional paid in capital on the consolidated financial statements of the Company.
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NOTE 8. COMMITMENTS
The Company leases scientific research and development equipment, its main premises on a month-to-month basis and an automobile all on an operating lease basis. The aggregate minimum annual and total payments due under these operating leases are as follows:
As of September 30, | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | ||||||
2009 | - | $ | - | 24,232 | |||||
2010 | $ | 6,431 | 23,923 | 2,062 | |||||
2011 | 14,313 | 10,911 | - | ||||||
2012 | 10,361 | 8,066 | - | ||||||
TOTAL | $ | 31,105 | $ | 42,900 | 26,294 |
NOTE 9. COMMON STOCK
The Company is authorized to issue up to 250,000,000 shares of Common Stock. As of September 30, 2010, there were 94,635,047 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding, with a stated par value of $0.0001 per share.
On September 30, 2010, the Company issued 2,263,855 shares of Common Stock to President & CEO, Mr. Michael Lee as compensation for the 2010 fiscal. During the year ended September 30, 2009 the Company did not issue any shares of Common Stock.
Net Loss per share of Common Stock is not based on diluted shares since the effect would be anti-dilutive. The Company has warrants outstanding to purchase 6,740,150 shares of Common Stock and options outstanding to purchase 14,260,000 shares of Common Stock as at September 30, 2010. On a fully diluted basis there would be 115,635,197 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding if all warrants and all options were to be exercised. Refer to Notes 12 and 13 respectively for more details on options and warrants. (As at September 30, 2009 there would have been 114,631,192 shares outstanding on a diluted basis if all outstanding warrants and options were exercised).
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NOTE 10. INCOME TAXES
The regional sources of tax losses for the years ended September 30, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:
2010 | 2009 | |||||
North America | $ | (532,047 | ) | $ | (305,980 | ) |
Outside North America | (27,267 | ) | (78,953 | ) | ||
$ | (559,314 | ) | $ | (384,933 | ) |
Tax losses by year of origin and year of expiry are as follows:
Year of | Year of | Year of | Outside | Year of | ||||||||||||||
Origin | United | Expiry | Canada | Expiry | North | Expiry | ||||||||||||
States | America | |||||||||||||||||
1998 | $ | 212,899 | 2018 | |||||||||||||||
1999 | 795,878 | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
2000 | 6,179 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
2001 | 292,351 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
2002 | 1,017,792 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||
2003 | 1,189,476 | 2023 | ||||||||||||||||
2004 | 790,108 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
2005 | 2,166,634 | 2025 | 732,448 | 2015 | ||||||||||||||
2006 | 1,764,202 | 2026 | 682,619 | 2016 | 205,123 | 2013 | ||||||||||||
2007 | 1,530,976 | 2027 | 293,528 | 2014 | ||||||||||||||
2008 | 1,266,180 | 2028 | 99,852 | 2015 | ||||||||||||||
2009 | 208,940 | 2029 | 97,040 | 78,953 | 2016 | |||||||||||||
2010 | 477,350 | 2030 | 54,697 | 2020 | 27,267 | 2017 | ||||||||||||
TOTAL | $ | 11,718,965 | $ | 1,566,804 | $ | 704,723 | ||||||||||||
CONSOLIDATED TAX LOSSES | $ | 13,990,492 |
The tax effect of material temporary differences representing deferred tax assets is estimated as follows:
2010 | 2009 | |||||
Deferred tax assets: | ||||||
North America | $ | 5,124,138 | $ | 4,400,034 | ||
Outside North America | 105,708 | 101,618 | ||||
Sub-total | 5,229,846 | 4,501,652 | ||||
Less Valuation allowance | (5,229,846 | ) | (4,501,652 | ) | ||
Net deferred tax assets | - | - |
The valuation allowance as of September 30, 2010 and 2009 totalled $5,229,846 and $4,501,652 respectively which consisted primarily of established reserves for deferred tax assets on non-capital operating loss carry forwards for our entities in United States and our foreign entities. The tax rates being used to determine deferred tax assets are estimated at 34.5% for North America and 15% for outside North America.
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The consolidated effective tax (benefit) rate as a percentage of income (loss) before income taxes is as follows:
2010 | 2009 | |||||
Combined Statutory Rates | 31.3% | 31.3% | ||||
Non-deductible expenses | (9 | ) | (9 | ) | ||
Change in valuation allowance | (22.3 | ) | (22.3 | ) | ||
Effective tax rate | 0% | 0% |
As of September 30, 2010 and 2009 the Company had no unrecognized tax benefits and as such required no adjustments to the financial statements. The Company records any interest and penalties related to tax matters within general and administrative expenses on the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. These amounts are not material to the consolidated financial statements for the periods presented. The Companys US and Canadian tax returns are subject to examination by respective tax authorities. Generally tax years 2007 2010 remain open to examination by those respective tax authorities. (IRS in the United States and Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in Canada).
NOTE 11. STOCK OPTION PLANS
No options were granted nor were any exercised during the year ended September 30, 2010. There remains 14,260,000 options to purchase shares of Common Stock as of September 30, 2010.
During fiscal 2009 employees, officers and consultants exercised a total of 3,430,000 options at an average exercise price of approximately $0.08 per share and resulting in $274,750 in cash proceeds to the Company. Of these options 700,000 were from the 2000 Plan and had a weighted remaining contractual life of 2.5 years when exercised and 2,730,000 were from the 2004 Plan and had a weighted remaining contractual life of 7.8 years when exercised. Immediately thereafter the remaining options in the 2000 Plan and 2003 Plan were cancelled, with the agreement of the option holders. In addition, and pursuant to an application for listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange, the Company cancelled a total of 7,660,000 options with the agreement of the option holders during fiscal 2008.
Proceeds received by the Company from exercises of stock options are credited to Common Stock and additional paid-in capital. Additional information with respect to the plans stock option activity is seen in the table below. The weighted average exercise price and remaining contractual life for all options seen at the bottom of the table was calculated by multiplying the number of options by the exercise prices or remaining lives and dividing the result by the total number of options. During fiscal 2008, with the agreement of the option holders, the option expiry date for all remaining 2004 Plan options was accelerated to June 30, 2012. All options now expire on or before June 30, 2012. The table below reflects remaining contractual life of the options as of September 30, 2010.
At the Companys Annual General Meeting held November 26, 2008 a majority of stockholders approved amendments to the existing Stock Incentive Plans including, among others: (i) combining the 2004 and 2006 Plans into one 2008 Stock Incentive Plan for ease of administration; (ii) providing a cap for the number of options to be issued at 22,000,000; (iii) providing guidelines for exercise prices such that the exercise price of any newly granted option is never less than the market value or in the case of a 10%+ holder, never less than 110% of the market value on the date of grant; (iv) providing for a maximum term of 5 years for any option granted; (v) provide for a vesting schedule whereby vesting must occur over at least 18 months with no more than 1/6th of the options granted vesting in any 3 month period; (vi) providing for the maximum number of options to be granted to any one individual in any 12 month period to be no more than 5% of the issued and outstanding common stock, and (vii) providing for a maximum number of options to be granted to any Investor Relations party to be no more than 2% of the issued and outstanding common stock.
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As a result of the new terms governing the Companys Stock Incentive Plan, the maximum number of options that can still be issued totals 4,310,000 regardless of how many are exercised or expire.
Number | Share | |||||||||||||||||
2008 Stock | Granted, | Price on | Remaining | |||||||||||||||
Incentive Plan | (exercised), | Exercise | Date of | Expiry | Contractual | |||||||||||||
(cancelled) or | Date | Price $ | Grant $ | Date | Life (Years) | |||||||||||||
(expired) | ||||||||||||||||||
12,720,000 | 15/11/2004 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 6/30/2012 | 1.75 | |||||||||||||
500,000 | 15/11/2004 | 0.40 0.50 | 0.11 | 6/30/2012 | 1.75 | |||||||||||||
7,000,000 | 10/1/2005 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 6/30/2012 | 1.75 | |||||||||||||
390,000 | 8/2/2005 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 6/30/2012 | 1.75 | |||||||||||||
100,000 | 5/25/2005 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 6/30/2012 | 1.75 | |||||||||||||
3,290,000 | 10/17/2005 | 0.075 | 0.08 | 6/30/2012 | 1.75 | |||||||||||||
Total Grant | 24,000,000 | |||||||||||||||||
Exercised | (2,730,000 | ) | 12/27/2007 | 0.075 | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Cancelled | (6,640,000 | ) | 12/28/2007 | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Expired | (460,000 | ) | 2/10/2008 | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Remaining | 14,170,000 | |||||||||||||||||
Granted | 90,000 | 1/3/2007 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 1/3/2012 | 1.26 | ||||||||||||
Total | 14,260,000 | |||||||||||||||||
Weighted Average of Options Remaining | 0.15 | 1.73 |
NOTE 12. WARRANTS
On April 12, 2010, the Company issued 3,740,150 warrants to purchase 3,740,150 shares of Common Stock at $0.085 per share expiring on April 11, 2015. The warrants were issued in exchange for financial advisory services to be provided from the period from April 11, 2010 until Sep 30, 2010. The total fair value of the warrants has been estimated to be $262,090 using Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following assumptions: dividend yield of 0%, expected volatility of 103,86%, risk-free interest rate of 3%, and an expected life of 5 years. The company recorded $262,090 in stock based compensation for the year ended September 30, 2010 (2009- $73,725). No income tax benefit has been realized as a result of warrant amortization expenses during 2010 and 2009. Stock based compensation is included in general and administrative expenses seen on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.
As at September 30, 2010 there were 6,740,150 warrants issued and outstanding. Additional details regarding warrant activity and warrants outstanding as of September 30, 2010 and 2009 are seen in the table below.
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Outstanding | Weighted | Weighted |
as at | Average | Average |
September | Exercise | Contractual |
30, 2008 | Price | Life (Years) |
7,260,000 | $ 0.1 | 0.75 |
Activity during fiscal 2009 and 2010 |
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(2,260,000) Expired during fiscal 2009 |
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3,000,000 Granted in exchange for advisory services April 1, 2009 @ $0.03 per share | ||
8,000,000 Balance September 30, 2009 |
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(5,000,000) Expired during fiscal 2010 |
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3,740,150 Granted in exchange for advisory services April 12, 2010 @ $0.085 per share |
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6,740,150 Balance September 30, 2010 |
Share | ||||||
Outstanding | Price | |||||
as at | on | Remaining | ||||
September | Exercise | Grant | Expiry | Contractual | ||
30, 2010 | Issue Date | Price $ | Date $ | Date | Life (Years) | Reason for Issuance |
3,000,000 | 4/1/2009 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 3/31/2014 | 3.50 | Issued in exchange |
for financial | ||||||
advisory services. | ||||||
3,740,150 | 4/12/2010 | 0.085 | 0.09 | 4/11/2015 | 4.53 | Issued in exchange |
for financial | ||||||
advisory services. | ||||||
Weighted | Weighted | |||||
Average | Average | |||||
Exercise | Contractual | |||||
Total | Price | Life (Years) | ||||
6,740,150 | 0.06 | 4.015 |
NOTE 13. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
The Company sourced some of its funding during the year from one director. Mr. Lee, CEO and director loaned the Company $2,430 during the year ended September 30, 2010. Interest accrued on all loans outstanding to Mr. Lee (the only loans remaining from directors) totalled $12,198 as of September 30, 2010. The Company also repaid $2,000 in principal to extinguish one of the Promissory Notes owing to Mr. Lee during fiscal 2010. The total loan amounts including accrued interest owing to Mr. Lee as of September 30, 2010 was $55,444. (September 30, 2009 - $49,813)
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NOTE 14. SEGMENTED INFORMATION
The Company operates in one business segment, namely human therapeutics. Results of operations are reported on a consolidated basis for segment reporting purposes. Consolidated disclosures about revenue streams and long-lived assets by geographic area are seen below.
Revenues
The Company derived revenues from royalties and from consulting services for the year ended September 30, 2010 and 2009.
Years ended September 30, | ||||||
Revenue Stream | 2010 | 2009 | ||||
Third Party Royalties (Mexico) | 242,309 | 137,223 | ||||
Consulting Fees (North America) | 84,036 | 240,257 | ||||
Total Revenues | $ | 326,345 | $ | 377,480 | ||
Long Lived Assets | ||||||
Years ended September 30, | ||||||
Long Lived Assets | 2010 | 2009 | ||||
North America | $ | 43,079 | $ | 78,237 | ||
Asia | - | - | ||||
Total Long Lived Assets | $ | 43,079 | $ | 78,237 |
NOTE 15. RECLASSIFICATIONS
Certain amounts from prior year have been reclassified to conform to current years presentation.
NOTE 16. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Management has reviewed subsequent events through the date of filing the Annual Report on Form 10-K that includes these consolidated financial statements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. There were no material subsequent events since December 29, 2010 (audit completion date) that would require recognition or note disclosure in these financial statements.
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