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Haveou IIANo son surearammo snacks BUFFET AND oIn sasxsrs Also Avoilnhla Attractiver Priced CANNED HAMS and TOIb Size sLa 1m Also for your selection other ottroetively priced Poultry and Smoked Meots PREDRESSED CHICKENS CAPONS GEESE BUFFET STYLE HAMS and BONELESS SMOKED HAMS Also limited supply of SWIFTS BUTTER BALL TURKEYS VEPECIALI AVAILABLE IN Mosr MARKET FLvmo Ila BREADED SHRIMP airs With coupon at Purchaio 1H1 Pko sErrv cnocKEn OMOGENIIED Pie crust Mix Izo Coupon Exp Dec 20 With Coupon st Purchase Eor Pkg HUNTLEV PALMER Garnish Wafers IIAZICDUPDH Em Deb Ell min Shampoo and Set At All Times $125 EVES BEAUTY SHOPPE PA 6857I Smiui Juno Johnston ALLANDALE Owen FOUR OPERATORS By RUSSELL BLMAN UIIAWA CPIAlmost four iyears of federal Investigation ihave focused on unaccustomed ispotlight on Canadas pharma ceutical drug industry The Inquiry by the justice de partments restrictive tr practices commission has helped iniorm Canadians about some hitherto littlepublicised aspects of the industry such as The merits and prices of drugs sold under brand names and their generic or chemical names the effect of patents on competition the role of promo Inmlthnnuiahnw nun tion and advertising the wide variation In prices for some drugs Strictly speaking the inquiry was not concerned with whether prices are reasonable but whether prices result from trade restraint or monopolistic prnc tices It is on the latter ques tion that the commission will Rive an opinion in its report to the justice minister In 1962 Informal complaints about high cost of dnigs prompted the government to launch in April 158 the inquiry into the sale manufacture and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs Canadas Drug Trade Aspects Are Viewed Preliminary Inquiries by in estigatars working under the Combines investigation Act did not indicate the existence of any pricefixing arrangements said statement of material tabled in the Commons last summer But the statement said they did indicate Patents are used in such way as to limit the number of firms engaged in manufacture and sale oi particular drugs Prices of certain drugs are extremely high in relation in cost of manufacture Such prices have in some cases remained unchanged for snowroutines WIN New car For THE HOLIDAY SEASON so sic EoouIIAMpEns as sooo 0F COMPLETE DETAILS ON ENTRY BLANKS AVAILABLE IN ALI LOBLAW ONTARIO MARKETS ltExcErr LAKEHEAD LUCKY GREEN STAMPS EXTRA LUCKY GREEN STAMPS with gnupglt PIIIQIITI no lqulfl Shofllninl EAKE MIXES Devils Fund White or VII ow Ji1 coupon Exp Dec 10 With Coupon Purchase lax Pko suPPEn TIME FRozEN conKEo Butternut Squash no coupon in one so EXTRA LUCKYGREEII STAMPS With Coupon rumour sax In Plain or eimento KRAFT BHEEZ WIIIZ 11 coupon on Dec so With coupon at Purchase To Fl or Tlll NW EX lIICKYGREEII STAMPS WETHEVS Raisin rie Filling 112 Coupon Exp Den EXTRA lUCKY GREEN STAMPS with Coupon mi one lib Poly asp cooKIHn oIIIoIIs as Coupon Into on with oupnn Puebla one sIb Poiv nII MAle POTATOES coupon Ekp Dec 20 several years despite increased production and use of the pa ticuiar drug There is marked uniformity of pricing among manufaciuh ers Because of conditions no cuiiar to the drug field and be cause of practices of firms in the field there is only limRed price competition In the supply ing of drugs to the public Justice Minister Fulton ta bling the statement June it an nounced that because of public interest the commission would hold its oral hearings in public The only previous public hear fog In the commissions nine years was the 19 inquiry into lossleader selling ACROSS CANADA The commission is composed of chairman Rhodes Smith former Manitoba attorneyvgcn crai Picrro Carignan lanyer and Whiteley an ebono miSt They opened cross Canada hearings in July in Ottawa Sit tings were in Halifax Winnipeg Edmonton Calgary Vancouver Victoria Montreal and Toronto with final session in November in Ditava The commission heard from provincial governments federal officials the Canadian Associa tion of Consumers Canadian Federation of Agriculture pri vate doctors itherc vas rIn brief mm the Canadian Medical As sociation an economist pharm acists and drug manufacturers Many submissions simply echoed the statement of mate rial few witnesses among them the consumers organiza tion candidly admitted the doc ument was the chief source of their facts 0n the other side the major Ity of drug manufacturers were tightUpped generally lim ng argument to efforts to justify their existing practices Their case was presented in brief by the Canadian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association with only one major brand name manufacturer taking the stand PATENT REVISION The Manitoba government suggested revision of the patent law which Toronto generic name manufacturer said war used by some companies as blackmail technique to restrict competition Michel commissioner of patents said he was our prised that more firms were not taking advantage of compulsory licensing provisions enabling them to produce patented drugs on payment of royalty fee to the patentholder The Saskatchewan govern ment called for elimination of the iiperceni federal sales tax on prescription drugs It also urged establishment of na tional research laboratory to En alyse existing and new drugs in order to make authoritative pub lie reports and to conduct basic research Ii discussion revolved around the respective merits brand and genericname drugs The Canadian Society of Hos pital Pharmacists suggested committee he set up to devise nonproprietary names and as sign them to new drugs Ralph Thompson manager of the medical products department of Cyanamid of Canada said aban doning use of brand names would bring to grinding bait all development of drugs Questions were raised whether some genericname drugs now on the market might be of lower quality Dr Morreli di rector oi the federal health de partments food and drug direc torate replied that good and bad products are also sold Im der brand names He said most drugs sold in Canada are safe GOVERNMENT SAVINGS With respect to price Toronto manufacturer Jules Gilbert said his firm sells drugs under generic name at lower prices than comparable brand name varieties The veterans affairs depart ment whose hospitals have an estimated annual drug bill of $2500000 said it had made substantial savings by ordering drugs under their chemical name Several witnesses argued that excessive promotion and adver tising expenses by drug manu facturers resulted in higher drug prices Dr Nathan Sobecter an 0t tawa doctor said be discarded 75 per cent of promotional liter ature received from drug com panies describing some of it as blatant advertising produced in the Same manner as ads for soaps and detergents Drug company representatives argued that promotion though expensive was essential to keep doctorsinformed of new devel opments in rapidly changing field and to retain competi tive placo inthe market The Alberta government said there was wide range between suggested list prices for drugs and the prices at which the same drugs vere sold to hospi tals Its counsel produced Ii gures which he said showed that price competition existed only at the hospital level John Turnhull secretari manager of the Canadian Phar maceutical Association oomlt mented that consumer prices seeme to subsidize hospital drug prices He estimated only 60 per cent of Canadian phar macists madeuse of priping guides and manufacturers cata iogues MORE poos vANcoUvna crt Police chief George Archerwantsmore police dogs in 1962 He says the forcefs dog section should be boosted from its present six to 20 for aext year