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200 - I am a Strategic Account Manager for a Pharma Company in Toronto. My clients are Director Level and higher in Hospitals and we would like to produce a slide kit for meetings with Hospital Executives which provides information on our company (history, mission statement, values), examples of unrestricted educational grants that have been requested by organizations, information on our supply chain process and stability, PAAB approved educational & safety booklets for HCP and patients and a list of our hospital products which are approved for sale in Canada. The presentation will not include an product claims or promotional statements. Based on the PAAB Code, please confirm if this presentation is exempted from PAAB Review as it does not contain any communications in which claims, quotations and references are made for healthcare products.
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190 - Hi there, If a company wants to write a private letter to MPs, Senators, government officials (elected or appointed) with regards to their product, issues a company is facing with regards to approvals/existing regulations/legislation etc, does that letter require PAAB approval? To what extent are pharmaceutical companies required to submit letters to government officials to PAAB for review/approval?
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189 - Dear PAAB: We have a HCP-directed APS for a congress announcing "Company A name" and "Product B name" are "now here" in Canada. An offer to "visit at Conference Booth XXXX" is included. There are no further product / therapeutic claims. Is this exempt from PAAB preclearance review, as per the "now available" exemption in S6.6?; and If so, may we include product branding elements / visuals and maintain exemption? Thanks!
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177 - We have a new product under review by Health Canada. A part of the approval is the preparation of the Risk Management Plan, which includes a slide deck for HCPs outlining the safety issues with the medication. Should this slide deck be PAAB approved? if yes, how do we go about this, given that PM is not yet approved?
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164 - I intend to send out a PAAB-approved promotional piece to physicians in a direct mail campaign for an OTC product. I was also considering including a product coupon. The coupon will display the brand name, package shot and discount amount. There will be no claims. Should the coupon be submitted to PAAB, given that it will be distributed in the same envelope as a promotional piece?
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159 - If we were to have a backorder situation for one of our products and we wanted to inform pharmacies of this fact by way of a letter or fax to help prevent a backorder, would this letter/fax need to be PAAB approved? I was reviewing section 6.2 for clarification, and believe that it does not need submission to PAAB (I believe it's an institutional message), however I'm not entirely sure?
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149 - We want to download our PAAB approved detail aid on an electronic pad for our reps to use. If there are no changes to the detail aid, do we need to re-submit to the PAAB? Second part is if the PAAB approved detail aid on the electronic pad has some interactive features such as animation of some charts or graphs do we need to re-submit it to the PAAB. If yes, in what format would it be submitted?
• Jennifer Carroll