WASHINGTON: The Food and Drug Administration has once again postponed the release of its first draft guidance for social media.

The federal agency was supposed to release the guidelines in late December, but stated at the time that it would delay the release of the first draft guidance until the first quarter of 2011.

Now that's been put on hold.

In a statement, the FDA said: “It is difficult to provide a timeframe for the issuance of our guidances due to the extensive ...