Introduction of Foreign System of Expired Medicine Recycling and Its Enlightenment for China
10.6039/j.issn.1001-0408.2015.22.04
- VernacularTitle:国外过期药品回收制度介绍及对我国的启示
- Author:
Xiaodong GUAN
;
Yuqing ZHANG
;
Xiaoxiong XIN
;
Luwen SHI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Expired medicine;
Medicine recycling;
Environmental pollution;
Safety of medicine use
- From:
China Pharmacy
2015;(22):3036-3039
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To provide reference for the establishment of a system of expired medicine recycling in China. METHODS:The experience of developed countries with respect to the system of expired medicine recycling was summed up,and the existing problems about the recycling of expired medicines in China were considered to make suggestions to the establishment of a system of medicine recycling in China. RESULTS & CONCLUSIONS:Generally,the developed countries such as Britain, France,Germany and America treat expired medicines as hazardous wastes in the Environmental Protection Law,Waste Disposal Law and other laws,and have basically standardized the recycling of expired medicines. The projects of recycling expired medi-cines in those countries are usually funded by their governments or enterprises of manufacturing or selling medicines,where the medicines were recycled at designated places or on a regular basis or by post,executed by pharmacists and pharmacies,and then disposed on the basis of classification or burned and buried at dumps. However,currently there are no laws and regulations and spe-cial funds for medicine recycling in China,leading to people’s lacking of enthusiasm to recycle the expired medicines. It is suggest-ed that China should take such measures as soon as possible,including establishing and improving the laws and regulations of ex-pired medicine recycling,distinguishing the reasonably determination and disposition of different types of expired medicines,accel-erating the reform of the medical insurance payment system,giving full play to the pharmacist’s role of medication guidance,and fully increasing information transparency.
