Alcohol gel is up to 900% more expensive
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Value of product handling is R$ 50. The industrialized hard to find in pharmacies, can cost up to R$ 25. Before the flu, price was R$ 5. Procon investigates abuse
The prosecution of Parana asked yesterday that the Attorney General Consumer Protection (Procon-PR) check it unfairly increase the price of alcohol gel since the arrival of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) to the country in June. The liter of product, used for hand hygiene to prevent infection, cost earlier this year about R$ 5. Now comes to be sold in some pharmacies for up to ten times more: R$ 50.
The report yesterday was eight pharmacy chains in Curitiba and only three had the product. According to traders, suppliers are not meeting the demand and can not deliver the orders. In the three pharmacies in which the product was offered, the alcohol gel was manipulated and sold only to order, worth R$ 50 a liter. Since the product supplied by the industry to pharmacies on the shelf would cost half the alcohol manipulated, R$ 25 a liter.
The technical consultant of the Brazilian Association of Producers and Envasadores Alcohol (Abrapea), Ary Alcantara, said that the two prices, R$ 25 and R$ 50, are abusive. "It's because a liter cost more than R$ 5. Even if it is handled, because the formula is the same, whether in industry or in a laboratory manipulation, "emphasizes Alcantara. The consultant Abrapea emphasized that if the alcohol gel up, other products should also rise in price. "Alcohol fuel, for example would also have to rise, since they are the same plants that produce both products," he emphasizes.
Costly
The networks of pharmacy Nissei and Minerva say they are selling a liter of product to R$ 50 for the cost of handling. Both received a few days leave from the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) to produce alcohol gel. For press relations, the Nissei says that, unlike the industry can not produce a large scale, which influence the price higher. The same explanation was given by the marketing consultant of Minerva, Nelson Goulart.
The representative of the Minerva also said that by Friday the network should receive a lot of alcohol gel ordered from a supplier in the middle of last month. "The price of alcohol coming from the industry will be lower, around R$ 14 a bottle with half a liter (R$ 28 a liter)," says Goulart.
Punishment
Until yesterday, no complaints about the price of alcohol gel had come to the Prosecutor's Office and Consumer Protection of the Public Prosecution. However, if the Procon noted that there was an abuse, the company - whether wholesale or retail - will be denounced by the MP to justice.
The punishment that the company increases the price of a product without just cause is fine, seizure of product, temporary suspension or prohibition of activity management. The increase in abuse can also constitute a violation of the economic order. In this case, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), an agency of the Ministry of Justice can impose a fine amounting from 1% to 30% of company sales last year.
Source: Gazeta do Povo
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