As of 9 February, medicines sold in Europe must be automatically scanned to ensure their authenticity. In France, however, pharmacies are not ready for the new legislation. Besides unwillingness on the part of some, pharmacists have flagged up other very real problems: how should out-of-stock medicines be billed? Or, how should medicines for patients who are unable to get to pharmacies, for example, those in retirement homes, be handled? The lack of response from the Department of Public Health, which is also awaiting answers from the European Commission, means that most software in pharmacies has not yet been updated to serialization. Both industrialists and wholesaler-distributors, on the other hand, are ready.
Source : www.nordlittoral.fr