Drug cabinet

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In the 20th century, a drug cabinet was understood in German law to be a dispensing point for drugs outside of pharmacies . Retailers could use it to dispense pain relievers and other drugs for self-medication without the need for pharmaceutical training. A basic supply of medicines close to home was thus possible.

According to the Pharmazeutische Zeitung , there were around 25,000 drug cabinets in the food retail sector in Germany in 1959 in rural areas and on the outskirts of cities. Until 1958, the operation of a pharmacy was still tied to a license and the pharmacy density was correspondingly low. In 1970 17,860 of the 22,510 municipalities in the Federal Republic of Germany had neither a pharmacy nor a drugstore .

Expertise

1939, a survey by the main job among the holders of the drugs cabinets showed a content of about 80 percent village merchants, Gemischtwaren-, material and grocery retailers . The remaining 20 percent also included hairdressers, innkeepers and other professional groups who traded in colonial goods on the side and had no special expertise with regard to pharmaceuticals.

In the retail trade law there was a special regulation for drug cabinets until 1961, which were subject to medical surveillance and had to be reported to the authorities. It then set the prerequisites for expertise in retailing pharmaceuticals.

Since 1978, the dispensing of pharmaceuticals outside of pharmacies has been regulated in the German Medicines Act ( Section 50 AMG). The “Ordinance on the Proof of Expertise in the Retail of Over-the-Counter Medicines” lays down training requirements and examination regulations. The possibility of registering drug cabinets has therefore been eliminated. For the transition, the previous drug cabinet owners were granted grandfathering rights in Art. 3 § 14 of the Act on the Reorganization of Drug Law . For example, "retailers who were allowed to sell over-the-counter drugs before January 1, 1978, that is, either had a license to sell over-the-counter drugs and medical aids or who had reported a drug cabinet, may continue to do this." Medicines outside of pharmacies require the presence of a person with a certificate of competence.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pharmaceutical Newspaper "Vol. 104, No. 32. 1959 p. 818 ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 526 kB)
  2. ↑ L. Niedieck, page 93
  3. ↑ L. Niedieck, page 58
  4. ↑ L. Niedieck, page 69
  5. ↑ BGBl. 1976 I p. 2445, 2479
  6. ↑ IHK Potsdam  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.potsdam.ihk24.de  

literature

  • Lothar Niedieck: The traffic with over-the-counter drugs outside the pharmacy and drug safety. Univ. Diss., Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-8311-2897-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • FO Neumann: The drug cabinet: Commodity knowledge and operating regulations for the trade in pharmaceuticals in rural general stores . 1939. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • E. Müller et al. F. Völter: Regulations for the operation of drug and poison stores (drug stores and drug cabinets) in Württemberg. At the same time instructions for the official inspection of the drug, poison and paint shops with special consideration of the imperial regulation concerning the traffic with drugs outside the pharmacies of October 22, 1901. Stuttgart 1921. In: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Chemie. 35, 1922, pp. 528-528, doi : 10.1002 / anie.19220357710 .

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