Table 3

Characteristics of Pharmacies on line promoting the best-selling HRT drugs in Spain.

Portal and HRT drug

Registered name/Co. address

Address of company http://www.whois.net webcite

Data Sheet

Requirement

Differentiated patient/professional information

Sales in Spain

http://www.goldpharma.com webcite: Absorlent plus, Duofemme, Estalis

Estracomb, Merigest

Perifem

No

Seychelles Islands

No

No

No

Burden of proof on the user to check current legislation for each country and accepted no responsibility

http://www.rx-med.net webcite: Duofemme, Merigest

Perifem

No

United Kingdom

No

No

No

Sells worldwide, but accepted no responsibility for compliance with legislation in other countries

(Web pages visited January 2009).

Chilet-Rosell et al. BMC Public Health 2010 10:134   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-134