Marketing and legal status of phytomedicines and food supplements in Morocco

Imane Es-Safi; Hamza Mechchate; Amal Amaghnouje; Abdelfattah El Moussaoui; Pierfrancesco Cerruti; Maurizio Avella; Andriy Grafov; Dalila Bousta

doi:10.1515/jcim-2020-0168

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Marketing and legal status of phytomedicines and food supplements in Morocco

Imane Es-Safi , Hamza Mechchate , Amal Amaghnouje , Abdelfattah El Moussaoui , Pierfrancesco Cerruti , Maurizio Avella , Andriy Grafov and Dalila Bousta

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From the journal Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine Volume 18 Issue 2

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.

Keywords: fez-meknes region; food supplement; market; Morocco; pharmacies; pharmacists; phytomedicine; surveys and questionnaires

Corresponding author: Imane Es-safi, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Environment, Agrifood and Health, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, FSDM-Fez, Morocco, E-mail: imane.es@hotmail.fr; imane.essafi1@usmba.ac.ma

Acknowledgment

This work is part of the European Union (EU) international staff exchange project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016-734759 (VAHVISTUS).

Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission
Competing interests: Authors states no conflict of interest.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

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Received: 2020-04-06

Accepted: 2020-07-21

Published Online: 2020-09-21

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fez-meknes region; food supplement; market; Morocco; pharmacies; pharmacists; phytomedicine; surveys and questionnaires