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Spending review: designer drugs, doctors fear Chinese arrival

To trade union risk toxic products or products of dubious origin

July 29, 4.33pm

(ANSA) - NAPLES, JULY 29 - "There could be many risks to the health of patients, including the fact that products arrive on the market from who knows which countries, from China for example, and which could be dangerous". The alarm was sounded by the national president of the Italian doctors union, Giuseppe Del Barone. The decree, tomorrow in the Senate, according to which doctors will only have to prescribe the active ingredient of drugs, without indicating labels, is under accusation. ”Who tells us – says Del Barone – that things won't go like they do with some toys and foods from abroad? There have been many products, for example Chinese, withdrawn from the market because they were toxic. The same thing could also happen in our field with drugs ".

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