The National Free Pharmacists Movement is critical of the disciplinary measures taken by the Order of Pharmacists against its members regarding the dispensing of cimicififuga racemosa-based supplements. In a note, the Free Pharmacists Movement judges the Order's decision as "paradoxical" when it itself is guilty of having failed to issue the ministerial circular dated 7 August 2006 to its members, thus failing in one of its main functions which is that of updating its members to protect the health of citizens ".
The same note also judges "the controversies triggered by Federfarma for the presence in the pharmaceutical corner of a supermarket in the province of Turin of the cimicififuga racemosa-based food supplement recently subject to precautionary suspension by the Ministry of Health and the Ketur test for ketone bodies which can be purchased in various sites, including online, as specious and instrumental". The two products, continues the press release, “have no connection as instrumentally affirmed by Federfarma with the recent Bersani decree. In fact, these are not medicines (Otc or Osop) covered, as is well known, by the recent decree, but a food supplement and test strips that have already been present for some time in various commercial types and whose sale has never been linked to the figure of the pharmacist or pharmacy ".
For the Movimentoliberi pharmacist, the presence of the cimicifuga-based supplement on the shelves "is certainly the result of an error, not justifiable by the simple fact that the ministry's note was issued in the middle of the holiday period, nor that the ban on sales had been in effect since 30 August, but using the episode with alarmist arguments for public opinion for the sole purpose of defending one's privileges is a very hypocritical attitude".
The Bersani decree, concludes the note, "is an opportunity for both consumers and young pharmacists and only minimally affects the still relevant monopoly in the field of drug distribution, a first step that will necessarily have to be followed by the abolition of the limited number of pharmacies".
From “il Scalpel.it”.
The same note also judges "the controversies triggered by Federfarma for the presence in the pharmaceutical corner of a supermarket in the province of Turin of the cimicififuga racemosa-based food supplement recently subject to precautionary suspension by the Ministry of Health and the Ketur test for ketone bodies which can be purchased in various sites, including online, as specious and instrumental". The two products, continues the press release, “have no connection as instrumentally affirmed by Federfarma with the recent Bersani decree. In fact, these are not medicines (Otc or Osop) covered, as is well known, by the recent decree, but a food supplement and test strips that have already been present for some time in various commercial types and whose sale has never been linked to the figure of the pharmacist or pharmacy ".
For the Movimentoliberi pharmacist, the presence of the cimicifuga-based supplement on the shelves "is certainly the result of an error, not justifiable by the simple fact that the ministry's note was issued in the middle of the holiday period, nor that the ban on sales had been in effect since 30 August, but using the episode with alarmist arguments for public opinion for the sole purpose of defending one's privileges is a very hypocritical attitude".
The Bersani decree, concludes the note, "is an opportunity for both consumers and young pharmacists and only minimally affects the still relevant monopoly in the field of drug distribution, a first step that will necessarily have to be followed by the abolition of the limited number of pharmacies".
From “il Scalpel.it”.
