Being able to easily buy non-prescription drugs from home with one click while having the assurance that the products are not counterfeit? This is the bet that took up a pharmacy in Caen. Since November 14, the Online Store of the Pharmacy of the Grace of God is open to all.
Fight against counterfeit medicines
Legally, there is no need for physical contact between the customer and the pharmacist when purchasing drugs. The latter just has an obligation to advise. This is why on the online store of the Pharmacy of the Grace of God, near each drug is displayed a tab advice. By clicking on it, the future customer discovers the instructions for use of the drug as well as its possible contraindications. The site also offers to answer a health questionnaire and an advisory service is available by phone and email.
We can thus find on this online store, a space for beauty-cosmetics, slimming-dietetics, baby-pregnancy, hygiene, natural medicines, vitamins, first aid, medicines and animals. In total more than 4000 references exclusively sold in pharmacies and drugstores. In the medication section, you can find painkillers, drugs against common cold, disorders of digestion or venous circulation etc …
The legal sale of these drugs could thwart the counterfeit medicines who profiled on the net at the risk and peril of consumers, according to Philippe Lailler, the pharmacist in charge of the dispensary in Caen.
Just a “business transaction”?
Currently, the sale of medications on the internet is not subject to any regulation in France. A blur that benefits this first pharmacy who opens his online store. In addition, this concept of online pharmacy is already widespread in Europe.
The pharmacists’ union quickly reacted to the opening of this store. For them it is only a business transaction.
The National Order of Pharmacists has not yet issued any negative opinion, but it fears that this initiative will encourage other sites to also sell drugs. The problem would be to see consumers get into the habit of buying this type of product online at the risk of finding counterfeit products.
And you ? Would you buy drugs on the internet through this store?
