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Subject: Online pharmacy legislation
Category: Health > Medicine
Asked by: adsales-ga
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Posted: 27 Aug 2003 09:11 PDT
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Question ID: 249251
Is there an organistion based in Ottawa, Canada that is representing
the legislative rights on Canadian Online Pharmacies to sell prescription drugs to
the United States
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Subject: Re: Online pharmacy legislation
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 28 Aug 2003 07:10 PDT
 
Dear Adsales, 

I think you're referring to CIPA - £The Canadian International
Pharmacy Association (CIPA) was created in November 2002, to promote
the growth and viability of the Canadian pharmacies that provide
international services, as well as to provide a unified voice to
address the challenges facing the industry at large."
<http://www.ciparx.com/index.html>.

However, a bit more militant is MIPA - the "Manitoba International
Pharmacists Association", which "representing over 100
online/mail-order pharmacies", and acts - as part of its goals, as a
lobby for the issue (One of their goals is defined as "Work in
conjunction with regulatory bodies and government agencies to
establish standards of practice and protocols to ensure the safe
provision of drug products and services to patients worldwide", About
US, MIPA site, <http://www.mipa.ca/assoc/aboutmipa.asp>). They are now
running a campaign to allow US citizens to import drugs from Canadian
mail order/Internet pharmacies.

You could read about the MIPA dispute with pharmaceutical giant
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) at: "Canada/US: Competition Bureau Will Not
Investigate GSK Efforts to Stop Cross-Border Sales by Internet
Pharmacies" AIDSLaw,
<http://www.aidslaw.ca/Maincontent/otherdocs/Newsletter/vol8no12003/treatment.htm>.

I hope this answer your question. For your own convenience (for
further research), I leave my search terms:
[" Manitoba International Pharmacists "]
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22+Manitoba+International+Pharmacists+%22

[Representing "Canadian ~online pharmacies"]
://www.google.com/search?q=representing+%22canadian+%7Eonline+pharmacies%22&num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[Ottawa "from Canada" "online pharmacies"]
://www.google.com/search?q=ottawa+%22from+canada%22+%22online+pharmacies%22&num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[Ottawa "from Canada" "online pharmacies" lobby]
://www.google.com/search?q=ottawa+%22from+canada%22+%22online+pharmacies%22+lobby&num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[Ottawa "from Canada" "online pharmacies" "sell" "ship"]
://www.google.com/search?q=ottawa+%22from+canada%22+%22online+pharmacies%22+%22sell%22+%22ship%22&num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[Ottawa "Canadian online pharmacies" "sell" "ship"]
://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ottawa+%22canadian+online+pharmacies%22+%22sell%22+%22ship%22&spell=1

I also recommend you'll read other answers I wrote regarding the issue
of online pharmacies:
What are the legal restrictions on offering internet mail order
pharmacies? http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=234795
Price of Optirol 
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=206213 
Saving money on drugs by buying from other countries 
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=199883 

If you need any clarifications on this answer, don't hesitate to ask.
I'll be pleased to clarify my answer before you rate/tip it.
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