German Minister eyes Internet pharma trade

German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt has said that she sees a strict banon mail-order drug trade on the Internet as no longer sustainable.

Noting that Internet-based pharmacies have already been set up by the Netherlands and other neighboring European Union member states, with courier operations based in Germany so as to evade the ban, Ms Schmidt said that a wall could not be built, so the government had to discuss with Germany's pharmacists how the issue was to be tackled.