[e-drug] Returned medicines and drug donations (6)

["Kirsten Myhr" <myhr@online.no>]

E-DRUG:  Returned medicines and drug donations (6)
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I agree with the moderator that this topic should have been buried long
time ago, but unfortunately, some people still donate used and returned
medicines and companies and pharmacies donate overstocked non-essential
medicines with short shelflives. Often these medicines are not even
familiar to the recipient country. Amongst the donors you find the
French government, unless they changed recently. The NGO PSF
(Pharmaciens sans Frontieres) was started in France and collected used
medicines from pharmacies. They soon found out that this was not a good
idea, but years later it has still not been possible to convince the
French government.

Your best source of information is to search the E-drug archives using
donation as search string. I think almost everything that has happened
is documented in messages to E-drug. 

Ms Kirsten Myhr, MScPharm, MPH
RELIS Drug Info and Pharmacovigilance Centre
Ulleval University Hospital
0407 OSLO, Norway
Tel: +47 23 01 64 11   Fax: +47 23 01 64 10
myhr@online.no