Healthy Skepticism Library item: 19229
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Publication type: Journal Article
Kopp C
Say no to seeing sales reps
BMJ 2011 Jan 19; 342:
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d132.extract
Abstract:
Silversides claims that promotional information is better regulated in France than in Canada or the United States. 1 She mentions the French code of practice for sales representatives of 2004, but in 2009 a report by the French National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS), which monitors the code, acknowledged that visits by sales representatives are not …