Drugs labelling, leaflets and packing in European pharmaceutical law with special reference to the Spanish and Italian cases

Abstract

The drug, as a technical product, has been created in order to control and dominate nature. Thus, the pharmaceutical industry acts against infections and diseases in nature, as well as other attacks on our health that can weaken it or bring it to a complete end. Unfortunately, these technologies are not innocuous; they eliminate “threats” but create “risks”, even for the health-related object of protection (suffice to say the side effects of drugs like Vioxx or Thalidomide). Not surprisingly, from its earliest origins the word “drug” has referred to a substance that can be harmful, as well as ultimately, healing. These products are not safe. Therefore, the Legislator has created an assumption of risk: it is supposed