MEPS BLOCK PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
September 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pushing pharmaceutical companies towards releasing more medicine information, while insisting such bulletins cannot be promotional. Approving and amending a European Union (EU) regulation and directive, the parliament's public health committee voted that pharmaceutical companies be required, (the original proposal made this optional), to make available such information electronically and in hard copy. This would be summaries of product characteristics, labelling and packaging leaflets and a public version of official ...
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