ADVERTISING STANDARDS FOR PATENT MEDICINES IN QUESTION
(Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, after five years’ investigation, submitted a 14,000-word memorandum on its investigation to the (Minister of Health, requesting the enforcement- of proper standards for proprietary medicines and their advertisements. The society praises the newspapers, advertisers. pharmacists, and mannl'acturcrs for what they have done to suppress abuses since the House of Commons Select Committee in 1014 published its report on patent medicines, but expresses the view that the position today is little less objectionable than it was then.
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Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 7
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95ADVERTISING STANDARDS FOR PATENT MEDICINES IN QUESTION Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 7
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