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: Arrow-Sumatriptan
Active Ingredient: Sumatriptan succinate 16.8mg/mL equivalent to sumatriptan 12mg
Dosage Form: Solution for injection
New Zealand Sponsor: Arrow Pharmaceuticals (NZ) Limited
Manufacturer: Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited, Pune, India
Product: DisCoVisc
Active Ingredients: Sodium chondroitin sulfate 40mg/mL
Sodium hyaluronate 16.5mg/mL
Dosage Form: Solution for injection
New Zealand Sponsor: Alcon New Zealand Limited
Manufacturer: SA Alcon Couvreur NV, Puurs, Belgium
Product: Your Pharmacy Decongestant Nasal Spray
Active Ingredient: Oxymetazoline hydrochloride 0.5mg/mL
Dosage Form: Nasal spray solution
New Zealand Sponsor: Orion Laboratories (NZ) Limited
Manufacturer: PSM Healthcare Limited trading as API Consumer Brands, Auckland, New Zealand
Dated this 3rd day of February 2011.
BARBARA PHILLIPS, Acting Deputy Director-General, Population Health Directorate, Ministry of Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).