Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Consent to the Distribution of New Medicines

Pursuant to section 20 of the Medicines Act 1981, the Minister of Health hereby consents to the distribution in New Zealand of the new medicines set out in the Schedule hereto:
Schedule
Product: Apo-Bisacodyl
Active Ingredient: Bisacodyl 10mg
Dosage Form: Suppository
New Zealand Sponsor: Apotex NZ Limited
Manufacturer: G & W Laboratories, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Product: Colgate Sensitive Cool Mint Toothpaste
Active Ingredients: Potassium nitrate 5%w/w
Sodium monofluorophosphate 0.755%w/w
Dosage Form: Toothpaste
New Zealand Sponsor: Colgate-Palmolive Limited
Manufacturer: Colgate-Palmolive Pty Limited, Labrador, Queensland, Australia
Product: Colgate Sensitive Fresh Stripe Whitening Toothpaste
Active Ingredients: Potassium nitrate 5%w/w
Sodium monofluorophosphate 0.755%w/w
Dosage Form: Toothpaste
New Zealand Sponsor: Colgate-Palmolive Limited
Manufacturer: Colgate-Palmolive Pty Limited, Labrador, Queensland, Australia
Product: Colgate Sensitive Whitening Toothpaste
Active Ingredients: Potassium nitrate 5%w/w
Sodium monofluorophosphate 0.755%w/w
Dosage Form: Toothpaste
New Zealand Sponsor: Colgate-Palmolive Limited
Manufacturer(s): Colgate-Palmolive Pty Limited, Labrador, Queensland, Australia
Product: Eligard
Active Ingredient: Leuprorelin acetate 22.5mg
Dosage Form: Powder for injection
New Zealand Sponsor: Mayne Pharma Pty Limited
Manufacturers: Atrix Laboratories Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Chesapeake Biological Laboratories Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Product: Eligard
Active Ingredient: Leuprorelin acetate 30mg
Dosage Form: Powder for injection
New Zealand Sponsor: Mayne Pharma Pty Limited
Manufacturers: Atrix Laboratories Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Chesapeake Biological Laboratories Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Product: Eligard
Active Ingredient: Leuprorelin acetate 7.5mg
Dosage Form: Powder for injection
New Zealand Sponsor: Mayne Pharma Pty Limited
Manufacturers: Atrix Laboratories Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Chesapeake Biological Laboratories Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Product: Strepsils Strawberry Sugar Free
Active Ingredients: Amylmetacresol 0.6mg
Dichlorobenzyl alcohol 1.2mg
Dosage Form: Lozenge
New Zealand Sponsor: Boots Healthcare New Zealand Limited
Manufacturer: The Boots Company Plc., Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Dated this 19th day of May 2005.
BARRY BORMAN, Acting Deputy Director-General, Public Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).