HC Deb 18 April 1991 vol 189 cc233-4W
Mr. Gareth Wardell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in theOfficial Report the written advice of his Department to retail pharmacists regarding the methods of disposal for unwanted medicines and poisons returned to them by their customers.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Advice is given by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to community pharmacists on the disposal of returned medicines. The Department has not issued any written advice.