Advert - Allergan

• Date posted
  01 November 2013
• Sanction
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• Case number/s
  AUTH/2460/11/11 - Merz/Director v Allergan

For successively failing to comply with an undertaking by continuing to claim that Vistabel/Botox was clinically more potent than Bocouture/Xeomin, Allergan was ruled in breach of the following clauses of the Code:

Clause 2 - Bringing discredit upon, and reducing confidence in, the pharmaceutical industry.

Clause 9.1 - Failing to maintain high standards.

Clause 25 - Failing to comply with an undertaking.

Allergan was also publicly reprimanded by the Code of Practice Appeal Board.