Drugs into over-packaging areas

Consumers were prescribed oral capsules of cephalosporins. The box had 2 packs of cigarettes and only 6 capsules were opened. "I'm buying drugs, or buying packaging?" Consumers questioned.

Ms. Liu, who was mostly empty and had just had minimally invasive fibroidectomy, purchased the 2 boxes of cephalosporins oral capsules. Each box was more than 50 yuan, but it felt like it was empty. After returning home, they took a look. In the packaging of two packs of cigarette packs, most of them were empty, only a thin layer of medicine. There were only six capsules on top. "The medicine that took so much money to buy back is more exquisite, but the medicine is less than before and the price is much higher. Are we buying medicine or buying packaging?" Ms. Liu reluctantly told reporters.

"I had a fever a few days ago and bought a box of effervescent tablets. The box was quite big, but there wasn't much medicine." Mr. Wang told reporters that the antipyretics he bought had boxes outside, boxes in boxes, and plastic bags. Plate-wrapped pills, three-layer packaging wrapped six tablets tightly. Mr. Wang told reporters that the medicines he bought back now had to be removed from the “luxury packaging” before being put into the medicine box. “This can save a lot of places.”

Drugs become over-packaged "hard-hit areas"

Yesterday, the reporter visited some pharmacies in the new district and found that many drugs are blindly pursuing exquisite, “atmosphere,” and “puffiness”. In a pharmacy near Jiefang Road in Tanggu, nearly 30 yuan of cough particles, the box has three packs of cigarette size, but there are only 4 bags of medicine inside, only a quarter of the box space; can pack up to 100 tablets of nearly 10 cm tall In the medicine bottle, there are only more than 30 medicines, and it shakes and jingles.

“In the past, excessive packaging of food and cosmetics was a serious phenomenon. Today, pharmaceuticals have gradually become a hard-hit area for over-packaging.” Dong Jinshi, executive vice president of the International Food Packaging Association's International Food Packaging Association, said that some pharmaceutical companies will make packaging boxes bigger and more refined, with packaging costs Gao Weicai raises prices and comes to sell packages. At the same time, the packaging box can be made larger, it can also increase the display area at the pharmacy counter, or use attractive packaging to attract consumers. “Let consumers feel value for money, but in fact it turned out to be not.”

Drug packaging still has no standards to follow. "In 2008, China introduced a national standard for restricting excessive packaging, but it only targets food and cosmetics, and it does not classify drugs. Therefore, excessive packaging of drugs still faces no standard and cannot be followed. The problem that can be solved.” Dong Jinshi suggested that the pharmaceutical industry should also learn from food and cosmetics restrictions on over-packaging, according to different types of drugs such as tablets, films, powders, etc., to elaborate the standards for restricting over-packaging of drugs. Manufacturers should consider from the perspective of the patient and rationally use the packaging of drugs while ensuring the quality of drugs. According to the size of drugs, specifications and other characteristics of the use of appropriate packaging.

"At the same time, pharmaceutical companies can promise not to use excessive packaging and limit excessive packaging in terms of corporate standards." Dong Jinshi pointed out that on the other hand, pharmaceutical companies should take responsibility for the packaging waste of their own pharmaceuticals, and discard pharmaceutical packaging. Recycling.