Medicines

Department of Health

MEDICINES ACT 1968

EUROPEAN PHARMACOPOEIA: APPROVED SYNONYMS

The Health Ministers, that is to say in respect of England, Scotland and Wales the Secretary of State concerned with health in England and in respect of Northern Ireland the Department1 of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, acting jointly, hereby declare under section 65(8) of the Medicines Act 1968 that the Medicines Commission has approved as a synonym for a name in the left-hand column of the list set out below (being a name at the head of a monograph in the European Pharmacopoeia), the name or names corresponding to it in the right-hand column of that list, with or without any of the following modifications:

(a)  a change in the order of the words in the right-hand column, with the addition of a preposition if necessary;

(b)  the use of square brackets for round brackets and vice versa ;

(c)  the use of the symbol “%” instead of the words “per cent”;

(d)  the use of the abbreviation “Inj” instead of the word “Injection”.

The subject matter of the list set out below shall take effect on 1 April 2005 and is supplementary to the list of Approved Synonyms published in Appendix XXI B of the British Pharmacopoeia 2004.

Borage (Starflower) Oil, Refined	Refined Borage Oil Refined Starflower Oil
Flunixin Meglumine for Veterinary Use	Flunixin Meglumine

1 The powers vested in the Minister in charge of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety by virtue of section 95(5) of and paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c.47) may now be exercised by that Department by virtue of section 1(8) of and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c.1).