FDA Wants to Regulate Drug Firms on the Internet and It's Targeting Facebook 'Likes' - Forbes

FDA Wants to Regulate Drug Firms on the Internet and It's Targeting Facebook 'Likes' - Forbes
FDA Wants to Regulate Drug Firms on the Internet and It's Targeting Facebook 'Likes'

PHARMA & HEALTHCARE 

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2/27/2013 

Scott Gottlieb, Contributor

  

The Food and Drug Administration is  expanding its regulation of the Internet.

It’s latest incursion? FDA is taking on a drug company’s use of the “Like” button on Facebook.

I wrote last weekabout a warning letter that FDA issued to a drug maker over that company’s use of a search bar on its web site. FDA faulted the firm for improperly linking disease queries directly with drugs that the company marketed

 U.S. Food and Drug Administration 

The Food and Drug Administration is expanding its regulation of the Internet.

It’s latest incursion? FDA is taking on a drug company’s use of the “Like” button onFacebook.

I wrote last week about a warning letter that FDA issued to a drug maker over that company’s use of a search bar on its web site. FDA faulted the firm for improperly linking disease queries directly with drugs that the company marketed

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