Flight ban stops pharmaceutical produce.

It is said today that Pharmaceutical companies could be the worst off over this flight business, as production of pills are not being transferred to where they need to be.

Christopher Snelling, FTA’s head of global supply said: ‘Consumers won’t notice too much difference on consumer goods but it may be a problem for processes in the manufacturing industry.’

‘Flying in components could be a problem for particular factories. And I think they may have happened already in the pharmaceuticals industry.’

It’s estimated that 25 – 30% of exports into Britain are by plane, and the Pharmaceutical companies need their produce as soon as possible. If flights take so long to arrive then many medicines that go by shelf life could expire and become unusable.

Are you getting the medicine you should be?

Would you ever notice if you were given ‘cheap’ medicine instead of the one you actually thought you were getting?

Well it does happen, some chemists will give you ‘cheaper made’ tablets instead of the ones that are more expensive to make.

One lady inparticular had noticed and decided to ask her pharmacist why.

Susan Robinson explains that she has epilepsy and something started to go wrong. ‘I began to have a lot more fits, as many as two a week instead of one every one or two months.

‘It was really scary - I never knew when it was going to happen,’ she says.

‘I developed epilepsy late - in my early 50s - and am still coming to terms with it.

‘But just when it was starting to become manageable, I was tipped back into the state I’d been in when it all started,’ says Mrs Robinson.

She took a closer look at the packaging of her prescription. ‘It looked different to the others I’d had. It had Portuguese writing and was called Topamac.

‘The pharmacist said he had substituted it for my regular brand-name drug to save money.’

It is done to save money, but what if it makes people’s health deteriorate?

If you think that your prescription is not what you think it should be then contact your pharmacist or speak to someone inside thepharmaceutical industry where you received it from.

Non-Contraceptive selling shop, closes.

When Divine Mercy Care pharmacy opened in 2008 people were shocked by they were selling, or more what they decided they wasn’t selling. Contraception.

Now 2 years later it has surfaced that this particular pharmaceuticalshop has had to close, due to loss of income.

The shop based in Chantilly wasn’t the only one, there are as many as 7 or 8 chemists there who refuse to sell contraceptives.

Although the Pharmacy was based in a ‘Catholic Area’ they just had trouble trying to pull the customers in.

Robert Laird, who worked at the store says closing the pharmacy “was like a funeral.”