Spain to label drug packaging with safety icon

Published: 8-Nov-2006
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Spain's health ministry is drawing up plans to place icons on pharmaceutical packaging to warn consumers which medicines may have adverse effects on their ability to drive motor vehicles.


Spain's health ministry is drawing up plans to place icons on pharmaceutical packaging to warn consumers which medicines may have adverse effects on their ability to drive motor vehicles.

Under a plan expected to go into effect sometime next year, all medicines will carry an icon depicting an automobile inside a triangle. If taking the medicine is incompatible with driving, the triangle will be red. A yellow triangle will mean the medicine could affect driving while a green triangle will mean it is safe to drive.

'There have always been such warnings in the instructions included with pharmaceuticals and now we're taking that a step further,' a ministry source said. However, health authorities have yet to draw up a list of those medicines that would be marked with the icons.

The source added that according to existing legislation the pharmaceutical companies would pay for the icon programme.

According to a survey of Spanish physicians by the foundation, only 52% of the doctors questioned said they warned patients that the medicines they were taking could impact on their ability to drive safely. Spain has one of the highest traffic fatality rates in Europe and the government is engaged in a campaign on several fronts to reduce the number of accidents.

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