Pharmacy Daily | Small script scripts

DESPITE public disapproval and consumer group outcry, The California Board of Pharmacy has knocked back a proposal which would have seen larger type mandated on medicine labels. In the lead-up to the vote the Board received more than 1,000 letters from the public requesting it to approve larger type standards (the most letters it said it had ever received on a single topic), and was set legislate larger type standards. However according to The Los Angeles Times the Board changed its position only days before it was due to vote when a representative of a pharmacy retailer - who happened to be a major supporter of governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - was appointed to the panel. The smaller type size has been ratified along with a provision which allows customers to request bigger text from their pharmacist.

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