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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The cry of the pharmaceutical industry crocodile

Dear colleagues, here I am. These days in all the specialized newspapers of our sector there is a great deal of hype from Farmindustria relating to several issues. Articles flock galore, suddenly it seems that the pharmaceutical industry trade association has suddenly realized that something is happening in our sector that it is no longer able to manage and predict. The current president of Farmindustria is heavily engaged in a thousand battles against those who would appear to want to resize the economic and regulatory dominance of the pharmaceutical industries that has been demonstrated in an incontrovertible manner over the last 40 years. In some passages, Doctor Scaccabarozzi's official defenses are at least laughable if not downright erroneous. Let's see them together:

 From Pharmakronos of 06.11.2012 we learn that:

 “ In the first four months of the year – underlined the president of Farmindustria, Massimo Scaccabarozzi – for the first time we have seen a drop of about 6% in the production and expenditure on pharmaceutical drugs, good for the state, but bad for the industries. Less research, less production, less revenue, loss of 10,000 jobs in the last five years "

 Evidently Farmindustria admits with this statement that the alleged crises in the pharmaceutical sector that have always been praised in recent years have never occurred, if for the first time there has been a 6 % drop in drug production and pharmacy sales only now. Evidently 10,000 workers in the sector have been fired just to increase the profits of pharmaceutical companies which have always been very voracious in this sense and not due to a real economic crisis in the sector. So please, why have 10,000 workers in this sector been made redundant in the last 5 years?

 From Doctor News of 06.14.2012 we also learn that:

 “Pharmaceutical productions are worldwide and one cannot think that a plant that produces for the whole world would start making a different package for Italy. Thus the president of Farmindustria, Massimo Scaccabarozzi, int

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