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Drug shortage: eleven pharmaceutical laboratories sanctioned
Drug shortage: eleven pharmaceutical laboratories sanctioned
(FRANCEINFO)
On Tuesday, September 24, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines announced that it had imposed a fine of 8 million euros on eleven pharmaceutical laboratories, which had allegedly not respected their stock maintenance obligations.
Not a day goes by without Yorick Berger, secretary general of the Paris Pharmacists’ Union, being confronted with the problem of drug shortages. According to him, the missing drugs represent more than 1,000 references. “It goes out faster than it goes in”he said. The pharmacist also points out risks for the patient whose treatment is interrupted.
The French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) has just imposed more than 8 million euros in fines on eleven laboratories, including Sanofi. Nathalie Cautinet, a health economist, does not believe that sanctions on insufficient stocks in laboratories will put an end to the problem: “It’s not just a question of having stocks, but also of active ingredients, of having enough factories to supply the demand”she points out.