POLSKI KOMITET ZIELARSKI [Polish Herbal Committee] a member of PASMI

9 July 2018 PASMI Polish Association of Self-Medication Industry with the Board’s resolution of 21st June 2018 admitted Polski Komitet Zielarski as a supporting member. “The new form of cooperation between organizations is an important stage in the development of each of them. PASMI is open to creating a platform for dialogue aimed at supporting initiatives pursuing recommending...

Patients without access to medication used on an ad-hoc basis

23 January 2018 23 January 2017. The introduction of the Regulation proposed by the Ministry of Health may lead to the closure of non-pharmacy sales of drugs, despite the statutory possibility of doing so, due to the factual obstacles, ostensibly serving patients. The actual effect will be to prevent access to basic medicines for almost 50% of the...

Non-pharmacy sales – Every second person who purchases medicines in stores lives in the countryside or in a small town

10 January 2018 10 January 2018. Warsaw, January 10, 2018 – According to ACNielsen Polska [1], every second person who buys medicines in stores lives in the countryside or in a small city of below 20,000 residents. Any changes in non-pharmacy sales will therefore affect the rights of patients living in areas outside urban agglomerations. Pharmacies are the...

90% of currently available drugs will disappear from non-pharmacy sales until the end of 2017

17 January 2017 Pursuant to the draft Regulation of the Minister of Health, relating to the classification criteria for medicinal products which may be sold in non-pharmacy outlets and limited service pharmacies, analgesics and antypyretic products which are currently available in non-pharmacy sales will be removed from widely available stores and petrol stations. The changes will apply also...

Ewa Jankowska re-elected for the position of President of PASMI

28 June 2016 During the General Assembly of its Members PASMI Polish Association of Self-Medication Industry elected the Management Board for the next three years. Ewa Jankowska, representing the USP Zdrowie Company was re-elected as the President, while Małgorzata Michałków from GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare and Monika Granecka from Sanofi-Aventis became the Members of the Management Board. The goal...

Supplement self-regulation is near

28 April 2016 In response to the offer of self-regulation of the industry proposed by the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, SUPLEMENTY POLSKA Association and PASMI Polish Association of Self Medication Industry, presented a Code of best practices in advertising food supplements. Works over the final version of the document should be completed within the next several...