Medical Device Advertising To Be Regulated

China's State FDA is soliciting public comments on a recently prepared draft of medical device advertising censorship. Companies found advertising misleading information and fraudulent claims of products will have to publish corrections in the same media, and face sales suspension. All future advertisements of medical devices that include the product name, application, performance, structure, mechanism and other features, will need to be examined by provincial monitoring departments before given an approval number. Transgressors will not be allowed to apply to the censorship board for advertisements for up to one year. The deadline for feedback is Jan. 25, 2008. (Click here for more)