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[Apha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Paul Lee] Most convenience stores that sell safety-related medicines violated sales compliance, the survey showed.
Future Consumer Action Co., Ltd. said on the 16th that 95.7% of safety-related drug vendors violated more than one sales compliance.
The survey was conducted on 1,050 out of 43,731 safety and commercial drug stores, or 2.4%, from the 17th to 21st of last month, and only 30 (4.3%) sold normally without a single violation.
The three major convenience stores surveyed, CU (34.7%), GS25 (36.4%), and 7-Eleven (23.6%), accounted for about 94.8% (994 places) of the total. The rest (56 places) were non-convenience stores. The investigator visited the store during the late night hours (1 to 6 am).
The safety emergency drug sales system is a system that allows people to sell medicines for 13 items even if they are not pharmacies with the aim of enhancing the convenience of purchasing medicines, such as at night, at stores that can be operated 24 hours a day. Thirteen items have been designated as safety-related medicines, including anti-pyretic anti-inflammatory drugs (7), gastroenteric digestive drugs (4), and analgesics, echinopathy, converging, and anti-inflammatory drugs (2).
According to the investigation, the same item is limited to one packaging unit sale at a time under the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, so selling more than two items is a violation of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act. Nevertheless, 46.1% (458 places) of the three major convenience stores sold in two or more packaging units once.
The most common violation is the failure to post precautions for use. The number of businesses that did not post precautions for use was 49.1% (516 places) of the total, which is similar to last year. The number of businesses that sold two or more of the same items at a time was 46.5% (488 places).
9.7% (102 places) of the businesses did not indicate the price of safe household medicine. The rate at which the displayed price information does not match the actual price was 9.1% (86 places).
Only 4.9% (52 places) had all 13 items out of 1,050. 26.7% (312) were equipped with more than 10 items. The average number of items required per store was 8.2.
Even though it was not open 24 hours a day, 49 places, or 4.7 percent, sold safety-related medicines. It increased by 133% from 21 places (2.1%) last year.
The number of stores selling safety-related medicines increased 114% from 20,385 in July 2013 to 43,657 in June last year. The supply of safety-related medicines increased by 248% from 15.4 billion won in 2013 to 53.7 billion won in 2022.
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