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Buying Online Drugs Safely
References
Citations
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2010). Buying Prescription Medicine Online: A Consumer Safety Guide. Available online: http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/ucm080588.htm.
European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (2008). The Counterfeiting Superhighway. Hampton Court, Surrey, England: Medicom Group. Also available online: http://www.eaasm.eu/Media_Centre/News/The_Counterfeiting_Superhighway.
Other Works Consulted
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (2011). Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program: Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators. Available online: http://www.nabp.net/programs/assets/IDOI_Report_10-11.pdf.
World Health Organization (2010). Medicines: Spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SFFC) medicines (Fact Sheet No. 275). Available online: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs275/en.
| By: | Reference Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: Reference May 14, 2012 |
| Medical Review: | Reference E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Reference Theresa O'Young, PharmD - Clinical Pharmacy |
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