The National Pharmaceutical Order issued this Wednesday, January 29, “reservations” on Wednesday, “reservations” with respect to the kits for detecting chemicals in drinks, sold in certain pharmacies and called the pharmacists “to surveillance.”
“What questions anyway is that these evidence have, that I know, not marking this”, a guarantee of compliance with the regulatory requirements so that this product can be marketed in Europe, said Carine Wolf-Thal, president of the National Council of Order of pharmacists.
Generally offered in nightts of the night and festivals, these tests – detection is done Thanks to a small stick that is soaked in the drink – are summal SOLD in “Certain Pharmacies” But have not come Added during an informative press session.
“The risk is that it is falsely reassuring”, even if “we cannot completely sweep the idea of trying a drink,” he said.
Pharmacies, a “shelter” of victims of violence
In addition, this type of tests, manufactured in the United States and the United Kingdom in particular, are not currently included in the list of authorized goods that a pharmacist can sell in pharmacies.
“The question is, should you enter the list or not?” Asks Carine Wolf-Thal. Meanwhile, “Be careful with the choice of reference of this test,” he said.
Chemical submission consists in the administration of psychoactive substances to an individual, often a woman, her knowledge, for the particular purposes of aggression and violation.
The pharmaceutical order recalls that during the health crisis was related to COVID, pharmacies served “as a refuge, as an alert place” for victims of sexual and sexist violence.
The French Health and Social Education Committee (CESPHARM) also provides “elements to help pharmacists” react to these situations.
Another device under study
The Government had relaunched in October a mission on the issue of chemical submission entrusted to Senator RDSE Véronique Guillotin and Modem Sandrine Josso.
She had notably recommended that pharmacies could deliver, with medical prescription, to women who think they have been drugged, a “detection kit” or “out of outside” with “bottles to collect urine”, useful addresses and “all the whole procedure to follow “to access the test.
“Nothing has yet been decided” about the analysis of chemical substances of a blood or urinary sample, said Carine Wolf-Thal, but that “will be part of an upcoming meeting.”
Source: BFM TV
