Packaging and Labelling of Medicines

1 Taking into account its medical purpose—to prevent, diagnose, or treat a disease—any medicinal product (medicines) can be defined by the pair of concepts: product and information. Indeed, the legal category of ‘medicine’ is based on an inseparable association between the tangible good—the product that is a substantive object to be administered to the patient, such as capsule, eye drops, injectable ampoule—and the intangible good—the information on the product that is the knowledge relating to its identity and its effects on humans. 2 This close link between...