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Government Skepticism And Over Regulation Holding Back Self-Care In France – GSCF Analysis

 
• By David Ridley

France's self-medication market lags behind its European rivals. Why is that? A skeptical and over-cautious government and a stifling regulatory system may provide at least part of the answer, the Global Self-Care Federation's recently published Self-Care Readiness Index suggests.  

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France’s self-medication market lags behind its closest European rivals, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of its Rx equivalent.

According to the most recent comparable data from the Association of the European Self-Care Industry, sales of OTC medicines represented only about 8% of the country’s total

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