Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Provisional Consent to the Distribution of a New Medicine

Pursuant to section 23 of the Medicines Act 1981, the Minister of Health hereby provisionally consents to the sale, supply or use in New Zealand of the new medicine set out in the Schedule hereto:
Schedule
Product: Coumadin
Active Ingredient: Warfarin sodium 1mg
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Pharmacy Retailing (NZ) Limited t/a Healthcare Logistics
Manufacturer: The Boots Company Plc., Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Note: This consent is given subject to the following condition:
? Not to be marketed as substitutable for any other warfarin product as if the two products were bioequivalent.
Note: This consent is valid for two years from the date of publication of this notice.
Product: Coumadin
Active Ingredient: Warfarin sodium 2mg
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Pharmacy Retailing (NZ) Limited t/a Healthcare Logistics
Manufacturer: The Boots Company Plc., Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Note: This consent is given subject to the following condition:
? Not to be marketed as substitutable for any other warfarin product as if the two products were bioequivalent.
Note: This consent is valid for two years from the date of publication of this notice.
Product: Coumadin
Active Ingredient: Warfarin sodium 5mg
Dosage Form: Tablet
New Zealand Sponsor: Pharmacy Retailing (NZ) Limited t/a Healthcare Logistics
Manufacturer: The Boots Company Plc., Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Note: This consent is given subject to the following condition:
? Not to be marketed as substitutable for any other warfarin product as if the two products were bioequivalent.
Note: This consent is valid for two years from the date of publication of this notice.
Dated this 7th day of September 2006.
DON MATHESON, Deputy Director-General, Public Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).