Society produces fact sheet on sale of poisons
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Fitness to Practice and Legal Affairs Directorate has produced a fact sheet for pharmacists on the sale of non-medicinal poisons from pharmacies.
Entitled simply “Poisons”, the new fact sheet is the 14th
in a series on areas of practice that are the subject of frequent queries
to the Society’s Legal and Ethical Advisory Service.
After a brief introductory section, the 14-page document explains the
structure of the Poisons List and the Poisons Rules and summarising the
main schedules to the Poisons Rules. The next two pages set out in details
the controls affecting the sale of Schedule 1 poisons and their storage
and labelling.
A further three pages are devoted specifically to the sale of strychnine
for use in killing moles, for which the controls vary across England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. However, the fact sheet points
out that strychnine will cease to be approved for mole control on 1 September.
The fact sheet concludes with four pages of answers to frequently asked
questions and an appendix giving details of useful contacts and information
sources.
All the fact sheets can be downloaded as PDF files from the Legal
and Ethical Advisory Service page of the Society’s website. |
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