Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15372

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Publication type: news

Guild TGA petition
Pharmacy Daily (Australia) - registration required 2009 Apr 3
http://www.pharmacydaily.com.au

Full text:

THE Pharmacy Guild is circulating a petition at APP which urges the government to stop the Therapeutic Goods Administration from setting up a “compulsory website as a source of CMIs and
PIs” for consumers.

The petition claims the proposed site will “unnecessarily complicate and duplicate the existing
streamlined provision of such information via the dispensing process and integrated with the
dispensary software in a community pharmacy.”

Other possible impacts cited include that it will make it less likely that consumers will receive their CMI information, as well as a risk that manufacturers of medicines will “discontinue the current distribution system”.

It urges that the TGA be directed to distribute CMI and PI via pharmacy “and that the establishment of any TGA website should not jeopardise the viability of the existing system.”

The principal petitioner cited on the document is Kos Sclavos.