Lilly Amyvid’s Full-Color Advertising Has FDA Seeing Red
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Color pictures of a PET brain image shouldn’t be used to promote a product that actually generates a black-and-white scan for doctors, FDA says.
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