Pharmacy restaurant and bar closes
Pharmacy was forced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to change
its name |
The restaurant called Pharmacy which opened five years ago in west London has closed.
The restaurant, designed by Damien Hirst, was forced to change its name
to “Pharmacy restaurant and bar” because the word pharmacy
in connection with retail businesses is a restricted title under the
Medicines Act 1968 and may only be used by pharmacy businesses registered
by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Although the change did not satisfy
the Society, counsel’s advice was that it satisfied the law and
the Society’s threat of prosecution was dropped.
Around the same time, the Society also threatened two public houses with
prosecution for misusing the pharmacy title.
More recently, an internet sex-shop dropped the word pharmacy from part
of its website after being warned by the Society. |
