Inadequate drug classification
- Misleading labelling of medicines
- Inconsistent labelling of pharmaceuticals
Incidence
In Pakistan, the labelling of pharmaceuticals consistently shows a relaxation of the recommended applications and contra-indications which would apply in the countries of manufacture, one example being a medicine registered for use in Europe for children over four years of age and labelled in Pakistan for children from one year of age.
Claim
In the Western world, vitamins and minerals do not carry labels warning the customer about the effects of misuse, because they are traditionally viewed as food components and not as drugs.
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Value
SDG
Metadata
Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
- Communication » Censorship
- Health care » Pharmacy
- Informatics, classification » Classification
- Research, standards » Signs and labels
- Societal problems » Inadequacy
Content quality
Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
G4852
DOCID
11748520
D7NID
144823
Editing link
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Last update
Nov 3, 2022