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| DRUG COMPANIES FAIL TRANSPARENCY TEST
http://www.consumersinternational.o...entNodeID=95352
A report by Consumers International, a global federation of consumer
organisations, examined the corporate social responsibility policies
of 20 major drug companies to test what information they disclose
about sponsoring patient groups, funding disease awareness campaigns
and offering hospitality to medical experts. The report, Branding
the Cure: A consumer perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility,
Drug Promotion and the Pharmaceutical Industry, "found only one
company, (Eli Lilly), provided information on policies towards
patient organisations; Less than half provided information about
codes of conduct for gifts and hospitality to health care
professionals; Pfizer, that worlds biggest pharmaceutical company,
provides no specific public information about its marketing code of
conduct." The report concludes that self-regulatory codes of conduct
are inadequate and that there is a need to "dissolve [the] veiled
relationships between pharmaceutical companies and health
researchers."
SOURCE: Consumers International, June 26, 2006
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