Online purchase prescription drugs: Still in the consultation stage Ayu time undecided

This May, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", which involves the sale of prescription drugs network content. Recent news has said the draft will be implemented in October.

For many pharmacies in Nanjing, the network of drug sales began very early, but sales are not satisfactory. The news that the prescription drug net sells Ayu, let them both look forward to, and be full of doubt to operability. And for the prescription drug network sales may exist in various problems, but also need to wait for the food and drug regulatory authorities to further explain. Modern Express journalist Wu

The prescription drug net sells October Ayu?

TIME's over.

Nowadays, there are no "things to buy" on the Internet. But the drug is related to the health and safety of the people's life, so the problem of online shopping is more people's concern. The state Food and Drug Administration has issued several regulations on the network for sale of drugs.

May 28 This year, the state Food and Drug Administration drafted the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", to the whole society for advice. The draft also contains prescription drugs. This is the first time that the release of prescription drugs in the electricity business channel sales. Recent media reports said the draft will be implemented in October.

Yesterday, the Modern Express reporter contacted the National Food and Drug Administration Bureau of the legal department director Xu Jinghe, the other side said that the draft is still in the request for comment stage, concrete landing time is still difficult to say.

8 months on the internet to sell medicine, losing tens of thousands of

Pharmacies worry: prescription drugs online is "Gao"

The ban on the sale of prescription drugs, once liberalized, will undoubtedly have a small impact on pharmacies. It is understood that at present Nanjing has five or six pharmacies to provide online drug sales platform. Yesterday, the Modern Express reporter interviewed a nanjing large pharmacy chain manager. The other said that while it sounded absolutely advantageous to pharmacies, operability was questionable.

The pharmacy was qualified to sell drugs at the end of last year, but in 8 months, the sale of drugs on the internet did not increase sales but lost tens of thousands of yuan.

"According to the regulations, the shop can only sell some common OTC drugs, even the description of prescription drugs can not appear." The manager said.

Sales figures show that the best selling shop, condoms and other family-like drugs, as well as blood pressure meter such medical devices. "Contact lenses are not good to sell, because the sale of the variety is not complete, a total of thousands of dollars." ”

Regarding the prescription drug network sale Ayu question, the manager expresses the welcome, "the light from the pharmacy, increases may sell the variety, expands the shop scale, certainly is a positive." "But he is also worried that this is only a good" Gao "," The prescription drug online, the probability of counterfeit drugs will increase, drug prices may be reduced. How to keep the medicine? How do you buy it with your documents and prescriptions? Not only your media attention, we are also concerned about. ”

Some problems about the prescription drugs in net sale

How do you prove that the prescription is "my prescription"?

No clear explanation

About the sale of prescription drugs, the most interesting thing is, how to show a prescription to the shop, proof that the prescription is the purchaser himself. This is not specifically explained in the present draft of the request for comments.

Yesterday, Jiangsu Province Food and Drug Administration staff said that for the online sale of prescription drugs specific regulatory measures, the Bureau has submitted recommendations, because the final management method has not been confirmed, is not convenient to disclose.

How to guarantee the safety of prescription drugs?

State Food and Drug Administration: List of prescription drug sales to be published

How to guarantee the safety of the prescription drugs in the net? How to rule out counterfeit drugs? Who is responsible for the problem? In July this year, the state Food and Drug Administration has responded to some of the problems.

Officials said it would set up a special body to oversee the sale of drugs on the internet, and set up a catalogue of drugs sold on the web, which could be sold on the internet for a handful of low-risk drugs, and for riskier drugs that were still banned from online sales.

Online purchasing prescription drugs, consumer identification?

The public: Have to wait for the time of Express, go to the physical store to buy

Internet shopping makes life more convenient, but the public has different views on buying medicine online.

Modern Express reporter in several online pharmacies to see, some long-term use of drugs, such as eye drops, vitamin tablets, shop prices than the real store cheaper than a lot of sales are very high.

"Prescription drugs are bought by the doctor's advice, usually with certain toxicity and other effects, with special requirements for the methods and timing of the medication." "A netizen says, prescription medicine buys on the net, not only security wants to play a question mark," and have wait for express time, still inferior oneself go to a hospital or pharmacy to buy. ”