Pharmacy selling milk powder is not absolutely a good thing

According to reports, Beijing's Golden Elephant, brand new, Tong Ren Tang and other pharmacies are the first batch of milk powder into the pharmacy pilot. On September 15, the pilot stores began to undergo system testing. In early October, that is, after the National Day, citizens can purchase milk powder at pharmacies.

It is reported that the brand of milk powder entering the pharmacy is currently limited to 10, 5 foreign and domestic brands, including Dumex, Wyeth, Abbott, Yili, Mengniu, Sanyuan and other brands. According to the plan, Beijing and Jiangsu are the first pilot cities. Before the end of this year, Beijing will have 200 pharmacy stores selling milk powder. Next year, on the basis of pilots, we will select 100 cities with strong spending power to expand pilot sites and reach 10,000 pharmacies nationwide. By 2015, another 10,000 will be launched and expanded to 400 cities.

The pharmacy is intended to sell various types of Chinese and Western medicines for the treatment of sick people. Today, milk powder also enters pharmacy counters. From the publicity and reporting, pharmacy sales of milk powder is a relatively safe channel. Because the powdered milk company's drug store was exclusively for milk powder, it was uniformly purchased and distributed by the International Brand Management Center. It was allegedly "a closed supply chain from the production company to the pharmacy."

The implication is that other stores, supermarkets, mother-and-baby shops, online shops, food stores, etc. are not closed supply chains, and there are many other links in the middle, so it is difficult to guarantee the safety of milk powder. In fact, in recent years, the safety problems of repeatedly exposed milk powder including baby milk powder have long been heard. The milk powder incidents that have repeatedly been exposed to imported milk powder this year have also repeatedly sounded the alarm bells of all parents. Finding a safe sales supply channel is indeed a desire of all families with children.

Only some doubts are inevitable. Is it not possible for large shopping malls, supermarkets or mother-and-baby shops to achieve or complete the closure of milk powder, especially the baby milk powder supply chain? As a reference, as early as a few years ago, related agricultural and sideline products had already been implemented in fixed-point and exclusive-use supermarkets. When, where, who, and what companies can plant the words can be seen at a glance.

In addition, if you only want to find a way to completely close the supply chain, there are thousands of ways you can choose, why must you choose a pharmacy, because the people's confidence in pharmacies?

What's more, the large Chinese medicine shops in various parts of China are gradually being included in the Medicare drug shopping centers, and milk powder is sold in pharmacies. How can the phenomenon of "purchasing fake milk from buying drugs" be eliminated? This worry is not entirely unreasonable. In the past few years, there have been repeated reports of the use of pharmacies as a virtual name and the purchase of nutritional supplements. Does the relevant medical supervision department have done a good job in this regard?

What's more, from the milk safety incidents that have been exposed in the past decade, the vast majority of people see exactly the food safety problems caused by the sales circulation. Most of them are produced in the production of milk powder. Therefore, milk powder will not become completely safe because it will be sold in pharmacies in the future.

From the author's point of view, instead of making great efforts to re-pour a sales channel for milk powder, it is better to have existing sales channels, improve services, and achieve a completely closed supply chain of milk powder in existing shopping malls, supermarkets, and specialty stores.