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Interesting, as here (France and Belgium) only pharmacies consistently display a green cross. All of them do, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was a legal re
by seszett 6y ago
Interesting, as here (France and Belgium) only pharmacies consistently display a green cross. All of them do, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was a legal requirement. It's not as consistent for the other medical facilities, but I'm pretty sure that at the minimum they never use the "wrong" colour.
I don't know where this usage comes from (and can't really look it up now) but now that I think of it "the Red Cross" is a doctors organisation, so it fits the scheme I told about.
- themulticaster 6y agoI can add two more examples: Italian pharmacies (at least all that I've seen) use a green cross, while German pharmacies use a stylized A letter. Wikipedia has a couple of symbols if you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy#Symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy#Symbols