Pharma sales have strict compliance but guess who enforces those compliances? The pharma companies. Not the FDA.
This isn't correct. Sales reps main role is promotion and the FDA has jurisdiction over drug promotion. There are been several examples of the FDA coming down hard on companies where drug reps fall outside of regulations.
In fact, most of the non-compliant behavior is reported to the FDA by other competitors? What better way to hammer your competition than to rat them out to the authorities?
The FDA has jurisdiction but they are not the ones enforcing the rules. And yeah the sales rep main role is promotion but there are electronic tests that are given to each sales rep that are not given by the FDA but by the pharma company. These tests are about getting signatures and information sharing. ie there are rules how they can promote the drug and most of those rules are about getting signatures and revealing key information about the drug.
I would say almost all of the compliance issues are sales reps forgetting to get signatures or getting the wrong signature. This is not what the other pharma companies tattle tell on as its a minor issue that is waste of time for the other pharma company to go to the FDA with.
Lets say the pharma company is unrolling a new drug or wants to try new sales tactics.. they will use use the signature compliance issue to fire sales reps. They will threaten the employee that they can report them to the FDA. Bare in mind that they collect these electronic signatures. And this is a serious termination that benefits the company since they don't have to pay various taxes (as opposed to laying off people).
I'm just curious refurb are you in the industry? I could be wrong that this is done by all pharma companies and this was just an isolated issue (ie bad apple).
This isn't correct. Sales reps main role is promotion and the FDA has jurisdiction over drug promotion. There are been several examples of the FDA coming down hard on companies where drug reps fall outside of regulations.
In fact, most of the non-compliant behavior is reported to the FDA by other competitors? What better way to hammer your competition than to rat them out to the authorities?