I strongly support the petition against long work hours for pharmacists without a meal break. I work for a large retail which gives us a break even when we work 8 hour shifts, I cannot imagine working straight 12 hours without a break. I really feel sorry for my friends who have to work for such a long shifts without a break.  As retail pharmacists standing all the day on feet try to help constantly each patient who visit pharmacies with prescriptions and in the OTC isles helping them find right medications which makes us physically exhausted after certain number of hours.  By profession itself a pharmacist needs to be mentally alert to dispense right medications and brain needs energy to stay alert which is not possible without a meal. I would like to strongly say that pharmacists, as a human being, just because he/she is being paid cannot be expected to work like machines which do not need a meal break. This kind of work environment is not only detrimental to the pharmacists’ health in long run but also directly affecting the safety of patients getting medications from a less productive pharmacist who would otherwise be with a little 30 minutes meal break. So, please help patients and pharmacists to be in safe pharmacy environment.