Korean Committee Recommends Bill Allowing OTC Supermarket Sales
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The law could go into effect as early as August to allow sales of 20 types of OTC drugs – painkillers, cold medicines, digestive products and fever reducers – beyond the traditional outlet of pharmacies.
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SEOUL - What started as a simple task of widening public access to some over-the-counter drugs has now evolved into a turf war between South Korea's pharmacist and doctor associations, and the Ministry of Health And Welfare is now calling for a new round of OTC distribution revisions before the first round has finished