Scientific sales representatives of the drug "are increasingly subjected to occupational blackmail, which transforms the very nature of their employment relationship". From informants to 'touts', in practice. This was underlined by Carmelo Carnovale, national secretary of the SLF (Pharmaceutical Industry Workers' Union - Cobas Private Work), in his speech at a conference on the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and medical-scientific information.
"Currently the legislation establishes that the activity of the Isf is carried out exclusively to inform the doctor about medicines. The Isf is therefore not a sales agent. But who does not see that the sector is heading towards this dangerous crest?". Carnovale even hypothesizes "a 'subversive project' by companies". On the basis of some elements: "Mobbing employees because they do not produce the expected drug sales, or inducing the ISF to donate part of their salary to promote sales; opposing working mothers '' he says. A project that "also aims to eliminate any obstacle by any means. They range from individual informants, whose contract could be sold, transferred, loaned, to the elimination of the Rsu with the transfer of the most combative delegates to a line which is then sold or declared suppressed due to the company's strategic needs".
Adelisa Maio- PharmaKronos May 26, 2010 
