Article L1223-6 of the French Public Health Code
The distribution of free samples of labile blood products is prohibited. However, it is authorised for the plasmas mentioned in article L. 1223-3, outside areas accessible to the public on the occasion of medical or pharmaceutical congresses, when it is only given to persons authorised to prescribe or purchase these products, solely at their request, and when the product or its packaging bears the words “free sample”. Promotional communication of…