UK MHRA holds fire over ibuprofen in press “goody bags”
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
Supplying medicines free to journalists is a “wholly inappropriate and potentially dangerous” practice, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has warned, after becoming aware that Nurofen (ibuprofen) had been given out in so-called “goody bags” to members of the press at a Conservative Party conference in Birmingham in October1.