FDA Regulations For Safer Online Medication Buying

FDA Regulations for Safer Online Medication Buying There are many things that smart consumers concern themselves with whenever they order medicine online. While the Internet is a convenient place to seek out things like prescription medication without... More

FDA Regulations for Safer Online Medication Buying
There are many things that smart consumers concern
themselves with whenever they order medicine
online.
While the Internet is a convenient place to
seek out things like prescription medication without
having to leave the comfort of one s home, there is
another side to things.
The Internet, unlike the real
world, is not regulated by any authority and, by
nature, can be almost impossible to effectively
police.
There are numerous ways that even the most
effective monitoring authority can fail, not the least
of which are questions of jurisdiction that arise due
to the Internet s nature.
Therefore, the Food and
Drug Administration has given a few bits of helpful
advice for anyone who plans to order medicine
online.

The first bit of advice is that consumers should be wary of sites that sell drugs that are illegal offline.

This can appear in a number of ways, such as when the medication in question is illegal in the US,
but not in other Less