{"id":1467905,"date":"2026-05-04T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/?p=1467905"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:22:24","slug":"french-regulator-fines-novo-lilly-weight-loss-ad-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/pharmalot\/2026\/05\/04\/french-regulator-fines-novo-lilly-weight-loss-ad-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"French regulator fines Novo and Lilly over weight loss ad campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As competition mounts in the red-hot market for weight loss drugs, France\u2019s medicines regulator fined Novo Nordisk approximately $2 million for running <a href=\"https:\/\/ansm.sante.fr\/actualites\/decision-du-29-04-2026-portant-sanction-financiere-a-lencontre-de-la-societe-novo-nordisk-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cmisleading\u201d advertisements<\/a> for its Wegovy and <a href=\"https:\/\/ansm.sante.fr\/actualites\/decision-du-29-04-2026-portant-sanction-financiere-a-lencontre-de-la-societe-novo-nordisk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saxenda<\/a> medications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ansm.sante.fr\/actualites\/decision-du-29-04-2026-portant-sanction-financiere-a-lencontre-de-la-societe-lilly-france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also fined Eli Lilly<\/a> roughly $127,000 over advertising for its Mounjaro obesity treatment that purportedly amounted to indirect promotion of a medicine for which a prescription is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The penalties reflect increasing concern among regulators that weight loss medicines may be misused and, as result, promotions run by pharmaceutical companies are being closely scrutinized. Two years ago, the regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/ansm.sante.fr\/actualites\/analogues-du-glp-1-point-sur-la-surveillance-des-effets-indesirables-graves-et-mesusages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a bulletin<\/a> on the risks associated with the drugs, especially inappropriate use.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s medicines regulator has fined Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly over their weight loss ad campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1260326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"stat_display_restriction_not_latest":false,"stat_featured_image_caption":"","stat_featured_image_nocrop":false,"stat_featured_image_focal_point":{"x":0.5,"y":0.5},"stat_article_wordmark_img":[],"stat_article_wordmark_url":"","stat_article_wordmark_height":"125px","stat_article_wordmark_enable":false,"stat_article_subheadline":"The penalties reflect increasing concern among regulators that the drugs may be misused","stat_paywall_restrict":true,"footnotes":"","stat_article_enhanced_byline":"","stat_article_newsletter_id":"","stat_article_header_color_scheme":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":37,"stat_paywall_move_flag":0},"categories":[37],"tags":[1649,3480,372,2251,666,5393,573],"authors":[75],"class_list":["post-1467905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pharmalot","tag-eli-lilly","tag-novo-nordisk","tag-obesity","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-policy","tag-stat-plus","tag-weight-loss"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2150033203-1024x681.jpg","coauthors":[{"avatar":"<img width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-80x80.png\" class=\"avatar\" alt=\"Ed Silverman\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 625px) and (max-width: 767px) 719px, (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 899px) 835px, (min-width: 900px) and (max-width: 1023px) 635px, (min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1199px) 803px, (min-width: 1200px) and (max-width: 1439px) 994px, (min-width: 1440px) 982px, 576px\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-328x328.png 328w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-640x640.png 640w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-576x576.png 576w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4-645x645.png 645w, https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ed-s-avatar-small4.png 700w\" \/>","display_name":"Ed Silverman","author_page":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/staff\/ed-silverman\/","first_name":"Ed","title":"Pharmalot Columnist, Senior Writer","bio":"Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. 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