March 28, 2019 – “The marketing and sale of unapproved opioid addiction treatment products is a potentially significant threat to the public health,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states in a new Warning Letter. “Therefore, FDA is taking measures to protect consumers from products that, without approval by FDA, claim to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, […]
Read more Feb. 28, 2019 – In a rare promotion-related enforcement action, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) issued a Warning Letter to Total Thermal Imaging Inc. (TTI) for claims made about its Thermography Business Package product in the firm’s brochures and on its website. Following an inspection of the firm in summer 2018, […]
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Nov. 2, 2018 – Providing information about a drug product’s benefits without including any risks is an issue that the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) does not take lightly, as evidenced by an Oct. 22 Warning Letter from OPDP to Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. This Warning Letter is the second Warning Letter issued in […]
Read more July 11, 2018 – A booth display and a webpage for the investigational new drug (IND) Crenolanib besylate “suggest, in a promotional context” that the IND is safe and effective for the purposes for which it is being investigated and, therefore, misbrand it, according to an Untitled Letter issued June 28 to Arog Pharmaceuticals Inc. […]
Read more July 2, 2018 – The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its second Untitled Letter in 2018 to Pfizer Inc., claiming that a direct-to-consumer (DTC) video for the ESTRING® (estradiol vaginal ring), posted on the michiganmomliving.com site, as well as prepared Q&As provided to interview participants (and submitted to the agency under Form […]
Read more March 7, 2018 – The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research’s (CBER’s) Advertising and Promotional Labeling Branch (APLB) may not exactly be an enforcement powerhouse, issuing just three Untitled Letters since 2013, but it found fault with CSL Behring LLC’s Website, patient brochure, exhibit panel and sales aid for IDELVION® because these promotional materials allegedly […]
Read more Feb. 23, 2018 – Companies, especially those that make opioid products, should make sure that promotional material displayed at conference exhibit booths clearly communicate their products’ risks and limitations of use, and that they heed advisory comments from the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP), which issued an Untitled Letter to Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc. on Feb. […]
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Jan. 24, 2018 – In a dip from previous low-enforcement letter years, the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued a total of five enforcement letters in 2017, fewer than half the number of letters issued in 2016 (11). Of the five enforcement letters sent this year, two were Untitled Letters and three were Warning […]
Read more Nov. 30, 2017 – False or misleading risk presentation and claims about efficacy were the primary concerns listed in the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion’s (OPDP’s) second Warning Letter of the year, demonstrating that the issues cited in previous years’ enforcement letters remain a priority for the agency. “While this is only the third enforcement […]
Read moreJan. 3, 2017 – In its last blast of 2016, the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent Untitled Letters to two companies on Dec. 21, both citing videos available on YouTube that allegedly promote investigational new drugs (INDs) as safe and effective for the purposes for which they are being investigated. These Untitled […]
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