Chapter V: Retail distribution

Any production or dispensing by a pharmacist of a magistral or officinal preparation is immediately recorded in a register book or by any appropriate system. Each transcription or record includes a different chronological serial number and the following information: -the date on which the preparation was made or dispensed ; -the name and address of the prescriber for magistral preparations; -the name and address of the patient, when the dispensing…

Experimental or ancillary medicinal products authorised when used under the provisions of 1° or 2° of III of article L. 1121-16-1 may be dispensed by pharmacies, if they appear on the list referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 162-17 of the Social Security Code, and provided that : 1° The persons taking part in the research have the same characteristics as those covered by the authorised indication;…

Before dispensing any medicinal product, the pharmacist shall affix his name and address and the name of the medicinal product to the container, box or pack containing it. The provisions of this article do not apply to the medicinal products mentioned in articles L. 5121-8 and L. 5141-2, with the exception of those subject to the rules governing poisonous substances.

The dispensing pharmacist may inform the operator, in particular via the emergency call centres or any equivalent system mentioned in article R. 5124-49-1, of supply shortages of the medicinal products which he supplies and of which he has not already been informed by the operator or by the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé and, if necessary, request an emergency supply.