What Is a Mail Order Pharmacy?

Online pharmacies refer to e-commerce companies that conduct online drug transactions through the modern Internet. Online pharmacies are the product of the development of modern medical e-commerce. Due to the special nature of medicines and drug transactions, the state's supervision of online pharmacies is much stricter than that of ordinary e-commerce. As of July 2013, there were only 112 online pharmacies with legal qualifications in the country.

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According to the latest White Paper "The State of the Internet in China" published by the Information Office of the State Council, in 2009 China's e-commerce transaction volume exceeded 3.6 trillion yuan, and the number of Chinese Internet users also reached 384 million, an increase of 618 times over 1997 and an average annual increase of 3195 Ten thousand people, more than 100 million people in China make purchases through the Internet, and the Internet penetration rate reaches 28.9%, exceeding the world average. At the same time, in 2009, medicine,

1.Exaggerated advertising

Some illegal online pharmacies posted on their websites or used the names of "experts and professors" to promote advertisements for specific drugs such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, there are almost no special medicines for such chronic diseases and difficult diseases. If it is really developed, the government health department or hospital will also recommend it for the first time. Many consumers are eager to treat the disease, and they are deceived only by advertising to buy medicine blindly!

2. False or poor quality medicines

Every step of the formal online pharmacy from drug purchase to drug transfer and sales is strictly monitored by the State Drug Administration in real time, and the quality of drugs is strictly guaranteed. In order to make a profit from illegal online pharmacies, the drugs sold are likely to be fake or inferior drugs or expired drugs! Consumers must not buy drugs online too arbitrarily or cheaply. After buying a drug, they should carefully check the drug name,

Since the special action against intellectual property rights infringement and the manufacture and sale of counterfeit and shoddy goods in November 2010, a total of 90 typical cases of manufacturing and selling counterfeit drugs have been investigated and dealt with, involving a total amount of 332.315 million yuan. All those involved in criminal crimes have been transferred to public security organs in accordance with the law, and 169 counterfeit establishments and dens have been destroyed. In the work of investigating and punishing the illegal publication of false drug information through the Internet, 295 overseas server websites were requested to be blocked, and 245 illegal websites were closed. "Internet Drug Safety Warning Notice" exposed 40 illegal websites ^[4] .

The following are the main characteristics of legal online pharmacies:

1. The founder is a drug retail chain enterprise established in accordance with the law, and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to obtain the Internet Drug Trading Service Qualification Certificate. The scope of service is to provide drugs to individual consumers.

2. The prominent place is marked with the number of "Internet Drug Trading Service Qualification Certificate".

3. Only over-the-counter medicines can be sold to consumers. The website has online transaction, online consultation, order generation, and electronic contract functions.