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Ministry eyes curbs on sales of drugs online
Yomiuri
The health ministry likely will early next year revise a ministerial ordinance regulating mail-order and Internet sales of nonprescription drugs before the revised Pharmaceutical Affairs Law comes into effect in June
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry hopes to restrict such sales of over-the-counter drugs as it is difficult to guarantee their safety.
But the online sales industry and the government's Council for the Promotion …