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: Calci-Tab 500
Active Ingredient: Calcium carbonate 1,250mg equivalent to elemental calcium 500mg
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: AFT Pharmaceuticals Limited
Manufacturer: Sigma Laboratories, Sinnar, Nashik, Maharashta, India
Product: Calci-Tab 600
Active Ingredient: Calcium carbonate 1,500mg equivalent to elemental calcium 600mg
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: AFT Pharmaceuticals Limited
Manufacturer: Sigma Laboratories, Sinnar, Nashik, Maharashta, India
Product: Gaviscon Cool Liquid
Active Ingredients: Calcium carbonate 16mg/mL
Sodium alginate 50mg/mL
Sodium bicarbonate 26.7mg/mL
Dosage Form: Oral suspension
New Zealand Sponsor: Reckitt Benckiser (New Zealand) Limited
Manufacturer: Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Limited, Hull, North Humberside, United Kingdom
Product: Gaviscon Cool
Active Ingredients: Calcium carbonate 80mg
Sodium alginate 250mg
Sodium bicarbonate 133.5mg
Dosage Form: Chewable tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Reckitt Benckiser (New Zealand) Limited
Manufacturer: Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare (UK) Limited, Hull, North Humberside, United Kingdom
Product: Lisopress
Active Ingredient: Lisinopril dihydrate 10.89mg equivalent to 10mg lisinopril
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Pacific Pharmaceuticals Limited
Manufacturers: Gedeon Richter Limited, Budapest, Hungary
Gedeon Richter Limited-Chemical Work Subsidiary Company, Dorog, Hungary
Product: Lisopress
Active Ingredient: Lisinopril dihydrate 21.77mg equivalent to 20mg lisinopril
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Pacific Pharmaceuticals Limited
Manufacturers: Gedeon Richter Limited, Budapest, Hungary
Gedeon Richter Limited-Chemical Work Subsidiary Company, Dorog, Hungary
Product: Lisopress
Active Ingredient: Lisinopril dihydrate 5.44mg equivalent to 5mg lisinopril
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Pacific Pharmaceuticals Limited
Manufacturers: Gedeon Richter Limited, Budapest, Hungary
Gedeon Richter Limited-Chemical Work Subsidiary Company, Dorog, Hungary
Product: Nurofen for Children Strawberry Flavour
Active Ingredient: Ibuprofen 20mg/mL
Dosage Form: Oral suspension
New Zealand Sponsor: Boots Healthcare New Zealand Limited
Manufacturer: The Boots Company Plc. Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Dated this 12th day of January 2006.
BARRY BORMAN, Acting-Deputy Director-General, Public Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on the 6th day of July 2001).