On July 8, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced its updated guidance, “Addressing Misinformation About Medical Devices and Prescription Drugs: Questions and Answers,” which provides recommendations and examples for firms who choose to address misinformation about or related to their approved or cleared drug or device.[1] This guidance revises and replaces FDA’s 2014 draft guidance titled “Internet/Social Media Platforms: Correcting Independent Third-Party Misinformation About Prescription Drugs and Medical Devices.” Social media users from 2014 will appreciate how different the world looks today and why—even though it took FDA ten years—this revision is a welcomed shift making it more straightforward for firms to respond to misinformation.Continue Reading FDA Revisits and Updates Guidance on Addressing Misinformation – Ten Years Later
