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Únicamemte las farmacias con sede física podrán vender medicinas ‘online’
Un sello europeo acreditará qué boticas podrán comercializar productos sin receta
El farmacéutico tendrá que prestar asesoramiento
María R. Sahuquillo Madrid 22 ENE 2013 - 21:14 CET
Únicamemte physics based pharmacies may sell medicines 'online'
A European label shall state that pharmacies may sell non-prescription products
The pharmacist must advise
Mary R. Sahuquillo Madrid 22 ENE 2013 - 21:14 CET
Earlier this year, a European logo credited to pharmacies that sell drugs without prescription online. In Spain, only able to market these drugs and apply the stamp the physics-based pharmacies and have a system for patient counseling. The government begins to regulate an industry with so little market yet, but it has raised serious concerns about the proliferation of counterfeit drugs and websites selling products.
The six years after approval of the Medicines Act, which stated that they can only sell "by electronic means" these preparations licensed pharmacies and pharmaceutical intervention. However, the rule was pending at that point of development, starting now that Spain must transpose two European directives on pharmacy.
The measure, which will unify the European market, has attracted much criticism in countries like France, where Internet sales of OTC drugs was not allowed. In Spain, the pharmacists had spent years asking for more control.
The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (Competent Authority), under the Ministry of Health, will coordinate the autonomy-who have expertise in the subject-to determine the requirements for pharmacies to get the stamp. Has not yet been determined what the patient advisory system will be required, how to apply for the seal, or if all accredited pharmacies to sell nonprescription drugs, analgesics, anti-diarrheal, some anti-inflammatory ... - online must be in a public list, as required by the Spanish Society of Community Pharmacy (Sefac).
Bethlehem Escribano, responsible for inspection and control of the Competent Authority, notes that pharmacies may only apply legally established in Spain. In this country, are legal only drugstores having a physical location and in which there is a pharmacist. This, together with the future regulation to determine what specifically, is a barrier to the opening of pharmacies online only.
Baixauli Vicente, VP Sefac, criticized the delay of the Government to regulate Internet sales. "Right now there are online pharmacies that sell drugs without prescription. However, nothing warrants to acquire what you really need, and has security guarantees. The current loophole hurts the user, and that can not be repeated, "he says. For him, the regulation should include not only the European label, which, according Escribano, allow users to identify web sites "legit" - and also strictly mechanisms so the pharmacist can advise the buyer. "Pharmacists, in the case of non-prescription drugs, act as a filter. We asked people what they want to give the product use, we advise and inform them of the potential effects and interactions of these drugs with others who are taking. How do you ensure that the sale is online? Who can guarantee that the user is not lying? "He says.
That is one of the most criticized also by French chemists, who believe that this measure is called to encourage self-medication. "The patient will be encouraged also to buy in bulk to avoid shipping", Isabel falls Adenot, president of the National Council of the Order of Pharmacists of France in a note.
Experts believe that the move will enhance the self-medication
In this country, most of the shops have, with the permission of the buyers, a pharmacist history of users. A dossier can consult the professional, but that is not available if the purchase is made online rather than criticize, can cause additional problems of data confidentiality of patients. "The approval of the sale legally online can be inevitable, but it is inconvenient and dangerous sanitary public health," say.
And, although the regulations allow only the sale of non-prescription drugs, these products are not safe. What happens, for example, slimming drugs that, although you can buy without a prescription are not at all suitable for all ages or weights? In a normal pharmacy, at which point the pharmacist would act as a barrier. And in an online pharmacy? "For there to be a rational use must be a regulation, and the Internet can not be a mechanism to skip it," adds Baixauli.
European texts adopted now Spain and sector regulation also aim to unite, fight the growing market of counterfeit drugs, which has been strong on the Internet. Only in 2011, authorities found and seized 3,936 of these products, a 93% increase over the previous year. In addition, 125 sites were investigated and 73 cases were opened.
"It's about fighting with all mechanisms against commercialization of counterfeit drugs and there is no doubt that the Internet can be a door for them," says Escribano. In Spain, the dense network of pharmacies there and the low price of these drugs without a prescription, which would increase the cost of shipping, do not favor the takeoff of online pharmacies. Users who go to these pathways are mainly interested, according to a report by the General Council of Colleges of Pharmacy, confidentiality, anonymity. Some used the lack of controls for untrusted access and dispensing prescription medications.
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