FDA Warns Against Sales Representative’s “False and Misleading” Oral Statements Regarding Prescription Medicine
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent an untitled letter to Eisai Inc. on October 11, 2018, based on a sales representative’s “false and misleading” oral statements during a lunch presentation about the safety of the antiepileptic medication Fycompa®, downplaying warnings, and engaging in off-label promotion of the product.
The letter, released to the public last week, explains that the representative’s statements – made during a single lunchtime presentation to health care professionals – misbranded the medicine in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act).
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