The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7259 p110
26 July 2003

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Sex shop using pharmacy title

A sex shop based in Bristol and operating on the internet is using the restricted title "pharmacy" on part of its website selling various items.

Section 78(4) of the Medicines Act 1968 makes it an offence to use the title "pharmacy" in connection with the retail sale of any goods except in respect of a pharmacy registered by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or the pharmaceutical department of a hospital or health centre.

Steve Lutener, head of professional conduct at the Society, said: "This applies to the internet just as much as to anything else. We shall, as we would with any case brought to our attention, take the matter up with the company concerned."