Can a pharmaceutical company distribute notebooks, pens and pencils from an exhibition stand?

  • 18.3

    18.3 Health professionals and other relevant decision makers attending company organised scientific meetings and conferences, promotional meetings and the like may be provided with inexpensive notebooks, pens and pencils for use at those meetings. They must not bear the name of any medicine or any information about medicines but may bear the name of the company providing them. If pens and pads are provided in conference bags at third party organised meetings then these must not include the names of the donor companies, the name of any medicine or any information about medicines.

No. Pharmaceutical companies should not distribute any items, other than promotional or educational literature, from exhibition stands.