PART 14Advertising

CHAPTER 2Requirements relating to advertising

Advertising to the public

Material about effects of medicinal product287

1

A person may not publish an advertisement relating to a medicinal product that suggests that the effects of taking the medicinal product—

a

are guaranteed;

b

are better than or equivalent to those of another identifiable treatment or medicinal product; or

c

are not accompanied by any adverse reaction.

2

A person may not publish an advertisement relating to a medicinal product that uses in terms that are misleading or likely to cause alarm pictorial representations of—

a

changes in the human body caused by disease or injury; or

b

the action of the medicinal product on the human body.

3

A person may not publish an advertisement relating to a medicinal product that refers in terms that are misleading or likely to cause alarm to claims of recovery.

4

A person may not publish an advertisement relating to a medicinal product that suggests that—

a

the health of a person who is not suffering from any disease or injury could be enhanced by taking the medicinal product; or

b

the health of a person could be affected by not taking the medicinal product.

5

Paragraph (4)(b) is subject to F1regulation 291A (campaigns relating to the suspected or confirmed spread of pathogenic agents etc.) and regulation 292 (exception for approved vaccination campaigns).