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Ensuring compliance with drug advertising promotional claims requirements

Advertising is a highly challenging and creative field. However, when making claims about the efficacy and effectiveness of products, especially drug products, advertising professionals need to comply with strict compliance guidelines which set out the limits of claims. The US government lays considerable stress on the veracity aspects of the advertising claims.

An ad for a drug product must state not just the benefits of a product, but also its side effects, risk and a lot other information such as the product ingredients, generic name/s, and proper indications of use. In addition, the image of models shown for the product should be inappropriate.

It should represent the correct age group for which the product is prescribed, and should not show a model of any other age group in the ad. If a cough preparation is targeted at the teenage population, the ad image should show only a teenager as a model and not someone who is older or younger.

The FDA has many requirements on the validity of advertising claims

In addition, there is another very important requirement from the FDA: The print ad should ask the user to report a negative finding to MedWatch and should give the contact numbers of the agency to whom to report negative findings of the use of the drug. The ad promotion branding should also advice the user to seek medical opinion before using the drug, so that expert medical advice is taken and the patient does not take the drug at will.

Offering clarity on the gray areas of advertising and promotional material

These said, there is considerable confusion about the subjective, or what are called gray areas of advertising claims. The issue is how to interpret these gray areas of a product or the ad, which will make a difference to the user’s decision making.

A webinar that is being organized by Compliance4All, a leading provider of professional trainings for the areas of regulatory compliance, will seek to clarify on these and other related areas of drug ad promotion.

Peggy Berry, who is the President and CEO at Synergy Consulting, where she provides consulting services to companies in all aspects of drug development, will be the speaker at this webinar. Over the course of this 90-minute session, Peggy will explain the requirements for compliance within the US. To benefit from the enormous experience Peggy brings into field, please register for this webinar by visiting

http://www.compliance4all.com/control/w_product/~product_id=501227L...

A description of all the issues relating to advertising and promotional material

She will explain the gray areas that must be evaluated thoroughly. She will show the ways of conducting a risk assessment and suggest and describe the strategies for mitigating risks and making challenging decision. She will familiarize participants with the critical situations and the important kinds of promotional materials in which advertisers could potentially get inputs and suggestions from regulatory agencies. She will equip participants with the knowledge needed for handling these situations. An understanding will be given of the important promotional materials and the strategies for implementing review processes and procedures to facilitate high compliance standards.

An important leaning offered at this webinar is compliance issues in the creation of advertising and promotional materials. Peggy will explain what needs to be done internally to assure assessment, evaluation and documentation of the advertising material.  Attending this webinar will ensure that the participants put in place an advertisement claims compliance program that will ensure full understanding and communication of potential risks associated with materials. The webinar will also give them the ability to mitigate risk through small but important amendments, which will go a long way in ensuring a high level of compliance standards by all the staff concerned.

Peggy will cover the following areas at this webinar:

o  Compliance Requirements

o  Submission Requirements

o  Prior to Approval

o  Direct to Consumer

o  Social Media

o  Medical Affairs

o  Sales Training

o  Review Process Considerations.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/prescriptiondru...

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/g...

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