The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a Warning Letter concerning unauthorized modifications made to a previously cleared medical device (i.e., 510(k)). ...more
3/26/2025
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Draft Guidance ,
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Healthcare ,
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Medical Devices ,
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While the authors are not huge fans of the rock band Def Leppard, its 1983 “Photograph” hit came to mind recently, when we read a recent Warning Letter issued, in part, because of a company’s refusal to allow photographs...more
Peter Murphy’s 1989 single, “Cuts You Up,” came to mind when we read FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion’s (“OPDP”) latest Notice of Violation....more
11/20/2024
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Celebrity Endorsements ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Marketing ,
Misleading Statements ,
Notice of Violation ,
OPDP ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Warning Letters
One of the catchiest songs written by the 1970s British glam rock band, Sweet, is “Love Is Like Oxygen,” released in 1978. The chorus includes the lyrics, “Love is like oxygen; you get too much, you get too high.” Apparently,...more
“Every little one, every little one,” a song lyric from Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s 1986 single, “Every Little Kiss,” comes to mind when we read a recent Food and Drug Administration Warning Letter issued to a reprocessor...more
In 1980, the British rock band, Genesis, released “Misunderstanding.” Forty-three years later, the Food and Drug Administration and a medical device company fell into a misunderstanding about a product’s regulatory...more
In his 1973 song, “Nostradamus,” singer-songwriter Al Stewart sang, “I am the eyes of Nostradamus, all your ways are known to me.” So, we started thinking, what would Mr. Stewart think of FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug...more
We pay tribute in this Bulletin to the late Robbie Robertson of The Band, who penned the 1968 classic, “The Weight,” and the harmonic lyric, “You put the load right on me.” The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a roundup of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more
8/18/2023
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Medical Devices ,
NAD ,
OPDP ,
Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Product Labels ,
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In 1994, the rock band Bush sang, “breathe in, breathe out,” in one of its biggest hits, “Machinehead.” In 2023, a medical device company tried to promote its 510(k)-cleared treatment hood/hyperbaric chamber device for...more
Many of us remember the television commercial where an older woman falls and cries out, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” This image and quote came to our mind when FDA recently issued a Warning Letter to a medical...more
Recently, a medical device company received a Warning Letter from FDA for a number of quality-related deficiencies, including issues with Medical Device Reporting (“MDR”), the promptness (or lack thereof) of handling and...more
In a nod to Alice Cooper’s 2000 song, “It’s the Little Things” (or, for literary fans, Robert Frost’s quote, “It’s the little details that are vital; little things make big things bigger”), the Food and Drug Administration’s...more
2/22/2022
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Enforcement Actions ,
Food & Drug Regulations ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Healthcare ,
Life Sciences ,
Listing Standards ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Supply Chain ,
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Rule Number One: If a facility is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, the agency may inspect it (although there are some boundaries, not discussed here)....more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more
3/29/2021
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Marketing ,
Medical Devices ,
Misleading Impressions ,
OPDP ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Warning Letters ,
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In keeping with family tradition, another Kardashian made headlines again in our food and drug world for the wrong reasons. And FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) was not likely amused to issue its third...more
Well, that was fast. Fresh off issuing its first Warning Letter of 2021,1 the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (“OPDP”) struck again. OPDP sent the Warning Letter to the drug company a day...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more
2/25/2021
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Biologics ,
Biotechnology ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
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Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
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Warning Letters
In this episode, AGG’s Food & Drug team leader, Alan G. Minsk, and team member, Genevieve M. Razick give an overview of FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion's (OPDP) enforcement of unlawful advertising in 2020.
Each...more
New Year. Same Types of Issues. The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its first Warning Letter of 2021, and it identified many of the same types of unlawful promotional...more
Good riddance to 2020 for so many reasons. But, as the AGG Year in Review of the Food and Drug Administration’s enforcement of prescription drug advertising and promotion has become an annual ritual, let’s take a quick peek...more
Some of us remember radio stations playing two songs from the same artist or band, back to back, with the alliterative “Two for Tuesday” slogan. The Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP)...more
The Food and Drug Administration issued a Warning Letter to a medical device company after conducting an inspection of the facility’s medical device operations....more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community, including regular updates on legislative initiatives from AGG’s Washington, DC...more
On September 13, 2019, FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued a Warning Letter stating that a professional email made false or misleading claims and representations about the risks and effectiveness...more