FDA Approval Required for Company Enjoined from Marketing Products
FDA Disease Claims, Drug, Drugs, Enforcement, FDA, FDA Approval, Injunction, Labeling, Marshalls, NDA, Seizure
On October 10, 2014, a federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio sided with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) and entered a consent decree for permanent injunction against Ascend Laboratories, LLC. As we previously reported, Ascend had been targeted in connection with the marketing and sale of certain products, deemed drugs by the FDA, without first obtaining formal FDA approval. As explained in FDA’s announcement of the injunction, the Company is now enjoined from marketing these products until they first secure FDA approval and post bond to recover the seized products. As…