German Pharmacists Protest Mail-Order

4 November 1996

The German pharmacists' federation, the ABDA, has protested against the delivery of drugs by mail order, especially via the Internet.

ABDA president Klaus Stuerzbecher said the availability of prescription-only drugs through the Internet undermined the prescription system. He criticized the German Post Office for setting up a department, designated Postmed, which provided a favorable source of drug advertising but whose activities run counter to German law, and urged the federal minister for the postal services to ban this activity.

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