Dive Brief:
- Amazon's filings with state pharmaceutical regulators reveal the
company is not looking to sell drugs on its marketplace, according to
reports from CNBC and the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
- The filings to distribute to at least 12 states from three facilities
in Indiana reveal Amazon could distribute medical devices,
supplies, gas or pharmaceuticals from the warehouses. However, to distribute
drugs the company would also have to pursue
a deal with a pharmaceutical
benefits manager.
- The biggest
rebuke of rumors on
Amazon's pharmaceutical dreams came from correspondence with regulators in
Tennessee and Indiana, where the company explicitly said it would not
"store or ship drugs."
Dive Insight:
Spinners have spread rumors
Amazon will soon disrupt the pharmaceutical supply chain, but it turns out the
opposite is true: drugs, at least, are safe from e-commerce — but medical
distributors are not so lucky.