Soon an upcoming revolution in the pharmaceutical industry? In an interview with El Parisino on Sunday, August 3, the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and families, Catherine Vautrin, announced that “working with health professionals so that the products that are brought to the pharmacy are analyzed, so that they may be placed in the market.”
Unused drugs destroyed to produce energy
Today, it is already possible to return defeated or not used medications in pharmacies and that no longer needs in its cabinets. But their recycling does not intend to make them available to other patients, especially because it is asked to separate the cardboard box and instructions.
In fact, once he returned to pharmacies, tablets, capsules, ointments and creams or even syrups and drops not used or expired to produce energy in the form of steam and electricity. In this way, the energy assessment of unused or overdue drugs makes it possible to illuminate no less than 7,000 homes throughout the year, depending on government figures.
Will these drugs soon return to the market? The minister’s proposal is debated among the teachers. “An antibiotic tablet is worth twenty cents. The price of management, the price of control to make them available, this is not worth it,” said Philippe Besset, president of the Federation of Pharmaceutical Unions of France (FSPF) with RMC.
However, the reconditioning can be interesting if the price of the tablet exceeds 10 euros: “There are medications that are very expensive, which are worth 10,000 euros per box for cancer patients. When unfortunately the patient dies, it is a penalty that a medication box with 10,000 euros is destroyed. When giving the hospital, the control procedures can be done and the reused drug Limoux (AUDE).
Source: BFM TV
