New Social Media Guidance From US FDA May Be On The Horizon

Future guidances may address information on healthcare sites and individual influencers and endorsers. ‘It is a difficult time to make any predictions about the timing of guidance,’ but the agency is looking at these issues, CDER deputy center director Grail Sipes tells FDLI conference.

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FDA notes issues that may be addressed in future social media guidance

It’s been six years since the US Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidances on the use of social media to provide information about prescription drugs, and stakeholders are eager to know when the agency will be providing further advice.

FDA’s Grail Sipes, deputy center director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, told the Food and Drug Law Institute’s virtual conference on advertising and promotion last week that...

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