The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to ask local governments to prohibit variety (sari-sari) stores from selling medicines to prevent the sale of fake ones.
Abdul Jamal Dimaporo, the chief of the Iligan District Office of the National Bureau of Investigation , checks on boxes of medicines at a sari-sari store that authorities raided for selling “stolen” medicines on July 22, 2019, in Purok 9, Barangay Palao, Iligan City. plans to ask local governments to prohibit variety stores from selling medicines to prevent the sale of fake ones.
Gutierrez pointed out that local governments were the ones issuing sari-sari stores licenses to operate.“FDA thinks that these sari-sari stores are also victims,” he said, speaking in a mix of English and Filipino. “So actually, the sari-sari stores have a license to operate from the local government. So we would like, if possible, to work with the LGUs so they can pass an ordinance that prevents the sari-sari stores from buying or carrying medicines,” he said.
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