The undersigned affirm that they are aware of the lack of appropriate
information provided to consumers of veterinary medicines in France, whether the information comes from the veterinarian (mostly oral) or from the information provided by the maker, a pharmaceutical laboratory.
We know that this lack of information must contribute to accidents with
medicines, including deaths. The obligation to information must be respected and, when it is not, we find it justified that authorities intervene to impose this respect.
It seems that a real problem exists in our country getting accidents with
medicines taken into account in the statistics. In France, where such
information is entirely in the hands of the laboratories which produce
vaccines, it would seem, for example, that no fatal accidents, or almost
none, affect children under 6. But this means quite simply that eyes are
closed in front of the evidence. Of course one cannot observe what one
refuses to see. For example, the exact figure of cases of post-vaccination
encephalitis amounts in our country to only one case per 100,000
vaccinations (already one case too many) when in our neigboring countries, such as Germany and Switzerland, the statistics are one per 11,000 and one for 5,000. Why does the simple fact of crossing a border render vaccinations up to twenty times less harmful? And if this problem exists for statistics on people, what is it like for those regarding animals?
Because of this fact, we must appeal to other authorities with the power to impose respect for the obligation to inform of French authorities, who have shown themselves incapable of such respect on their own. In order to permit an efficient action in this sense, all the veterinary medicines approved for sale in France should be examined in order to establish the correlation between the medicine and the information about it which is provided to the consumer. We ask that the European Commission carry out this verification and that it take all useful measures to assure French consumers that they really do have all the elements necessary to make an informed choice.
Link to the letter sent to the European Commission
Letter to the European Commission
