Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Approved Sale of General Sales Medicines by Vending Machines - Approval No.: 2012/AP016

Pursuant to Regulation 59(1) of the Medicines Regulations 1984, I, Kevin Woods, Director-General of Health, approve the sales of the following general sales medicines by vending machines.
Vending Machines
eVend CPC-01 vending machines operated by OCS Limited (trading as Cannon Hygiene), 26 Virginia Avenue East,
Eden Terrace, Auckland 1021. Postal Address: PO Box 8122, Symonds Street, Auckland 1150.
General Sales Medicines
Brand Name Active Ingredients Strength Dose Form Pack Size
Panadol Paracetamol 500mg Film coated tablet 12
Nurofen Zavance Ibuprofen sodium dihydrate 256mg Coated tablet 12
Nurofen Tablets 200mg Ibuprofen 200mg Coated tablet 12
Nuromol Ibuprofen
Paracetamol 200mg
500mg Tablet 6
Gaviscon Cool Chewable tablets
Cool Peppermint Sodium Alginate
Sodium Bicarbonate
Calcium Carbonate 250mg
133.5mg
80mg Chewable tablet 16
Strepsils Original Flavour Lozenge Dichlorobenzyl Alcohol
Amylmetacresol 1.2mg
0.6mg Lozenge 16
Coldrex PE Phenylephrine Cough,
Cold & Flu Paracetamol
Guaiphenesin
Phenylephrine HCl 250mg
100mg
5mg Film coated tablet 16
Telfast 60mg Fexofenadine HCl 60mg Tablet 10
Non-medicinal products
No other products are approved to be located in the vending machines.
This approval is issued subject to the following conditions:
1. The approval applies only to the vending machines, general sales medicines and approved non-medicinal products
(if any) specified in this document.
2. The vending machines must be located inside buildings, in clean, well ventilated and well lit areas, excluding toilet areas.
3. The approval must be available to be viewed by a Medicines Control Officer on request.
4. The holder of the approval must maintain a register of the locations at which the vending machines are located and provide a copy of the register on request by Medicines Control.
5. The holder of the approval must maintain a register of stock and vending machine incidents and provide a copy of the register on request by Medicines Control.
6. The approval may be amended or revoked by the Director-General of Health in writing at any time.
7. The approval expires on 30 May 2013.
Dated at Wellington this 15th day of May 2012.
KEVIN WOODS, Director-General of Health.