Online sales of over-the-counter drugs

Online sales of over-the-counter drugs

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Norihisa Tamura holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2013. The government said the same day that online sales of drugs moving from prescription to over-the-counter status will be banned for three years from the point of such movement in principle under new rules that could take effect next spring.

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