China Forbids Leasing Of Drug Store Shelves
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
SHANGHAI - Chinese drug stores are no longer allowed to rent shelf space to drug suppliers, previously a common marketing practice, or to put OTC and prescription drug products and non-drug products next to each other on store shelves. Sale of prescription drugs off the open shelf is also prohibited under a rule issued Aug. 13 by the State Food and Drug Administration