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In your message you state:
I do not know international law. But I can tell you something about
the German law which is very strict. We say that every step
("packing") counts as production.
I don't think you are getting the point, so let me give you a quite
hypothetical, example:
Let's assume a pharmacist living in a seaside town in South Africa
starting with D decides to tender for the (insert country here)
Ministry of Health's requirement of Carbamazepine. Let's further
assume that he has a cousin in a country across the sea where drug
regulation isn't a high priority.
Now when a shipload of white tables arrive on those shores they are
packed and very nice labels complying with all those important WHO
generic drug labelling requirements are put on the bottles telling us
that the tablets contain Carbamazepine.
Some month laters your average Medical Officer in the District
Hospital wonders why his patients are fitting all day long inspite off
all the efforts to improve compliance.
Of course the South African drug can't be the problem, can it?
And, by the way, the German law is not so strict, in order to protect
the customer, it is strict because of lobbying efforts of the
pharmaceutical companies and pharmacists who stand to loose enormous
amounts of money if a drug that is manufactured on German soil,
shipped to a desitnation within the European Community (where it has
to be sold much cheaper then in Germany), shipped back in and sold
much under the original price.
I'd like to know, though, what is happening on the Austrian
market. (They do speak German there, albeit different :-)-O)
Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@linux.lisse.na>
Namibia
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