Licence (licensed product)

The official authorisation for a medicine that specifies, one by one, the purposes for which it may be used. The source of a licensed product can be traced. One of the most important precautions is to have the treatment done by a physician in a licensed healthcare facility and to ask whether the product was obtained from a licensed and traceable source.

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