This page allows you to look up the legal classification of a medicine by searching a live database.
The database is updated regularly by staff of the
Royal Pharmaceutical Society. For a printed version, see the list
of medicines for human use in Medicines, Ethics and Practice:
A guide for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, published annually by the Society.
For a key to the legal classifications of medicines for human use, click here.
Please note that changes to the reclassification procedure
for medicines mean that the legal status of a product now becomes part of its
marketing authorisation rather than being determined by the active substance
listed in secondary legislation. Because a change of legal status will be conferred
only on products that are the subject of an application for reclassification,
you should refer to the entry for the specific proprietary product and not
rely only on the entry for the active substance. Since the POM Order remains
in force, entries for active substances will remain in this list but will include
cross references wherever proprietary products have been reclassified.
Further guidance or clarification on the status of individual products can be obtained from manufacturers or from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency www.mhra.gov.uk
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