Marketing and legal status of phytomedicines and food supplements in Morocco

Author:

Es-Safi Imane1ORCID,Mechchate Hamza1ORCID,Amaghnouje Amal1,El Moussaoui Abdelfattah1,Cerruti Pierfrancesco2,Avella Maurizio3,Grafov Andriy4,Bousta Dalila1

Affiliation:

1. Laboratory of Biotechnology, Environment, Agrifood and Health , University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah , FSDM-Fez , Morocco

2. Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials (IPCB-CNR) , Naples , Italy

3. Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Polymers (ICTP-CNR) , Naples , Italy

4. Laboratory of Inorganic chemistry, Department of chemistry , University of Helsinki , Helsinki , Finland

Abstract

Abstract Objectives The Phytomedicine (PM) and Food supplements (FS) Market is considerably growing in Morocco a review of state is necessarily to structure and improve it. Methods Information was collected directly from the pharmacist through a questionnaire-based survey who was conducted in 284 pharmacies in the region of Fez-Meknes in Morocco. Data were analyzed and classified using relative frequency of citations (RFC). Results More than 98% of the pharmacies commercialized the PM and FS, 80% of the pharmacists deny the existence of a real area dedicated to them, the majority (94%) of them prefer phytomedicine rather than classic drugs. This study reported about 64 products as the most used by the population of the region of Fez-Meknes among them 48 FS (75%) and 16 PM (25%) and the most marketed products are used for Transit Disorders (28.34%), then Anxiety (22.17%) and ENT Disease (20.18%). Conclusions Despite the fact that Morocco is a country where people use medicinal plants daily, the commercialization of the PM and FS is still unstructured. Due to legal problem the PM Sold in the market are mainly exported. To assure development and also valorization of this sector the regulation of this market is highly required.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Complementary and alternative medicine

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