2020 CDER Guidance Agenda Released

UPDATE: The guidance mentioned below was released. Here's the link.

The FDA has released the CDER Guidance Agenda. For ad-promo professionals, the most most significant item is the inclusion of an item labeled:

• Promotional Labeling and Advertising Considerations for Prescription Biological Reference and Biosimilar Products--Questions and Answers 

Also notable is that no other advertising or promotional guidances are listed. The draft guidance on presenting risk information turned 10 years old last year. It seemed ripe for an update and perhaps even finalization. That seemed even more likely in the context of OPDP's study of the so-called one-click rule. That study was first announced in 2017. There's no update on the FDA website about the study, but I expected it to be completed last year.

FDA's social science research has clearly been influencing recent guidances, so I assumed (and continue to assume) that FDA would want to update the risk presentation guidance in light of its most recent research about presenting risks, including the one-click study. Apparently, we'll have to keep waiting.

BTW, for those interested in the topic of biosimilar promotion, the Drug Information Association's Advertising & Promotion Regulatory Affairs Conference will have a session covering this topic. Full disclosure: I sit on the programming committee for the conference and will be leading the medical device primer the day before the full conference kicks off.