The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 270 No 7242 p437
29 March 2003

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Packaging

Look and read, don't glance

From Mr K. C. Stead, FRPharmS

There are two mentions of the remark by Lord Hunt about identifying "at a glance the information to make sure that the medicine can be used safely" (PJ, 8 March, p320 and 321). A glance may be sufficient for instance to identify a pictorial sign on our roads but it is inadequate to apply to a medicine when we must look and read. The advice should always be to look at and read the label, however clear or large the type. This advice cannot be repeated too often to patients, carers and health professionals.

Keith Stead
Southall, Middlesex

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