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Drug Alerts and Withdrawals

Drug Alerts and Withdrawals
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When the MHRA, or occasionally another regulatory body in another country, such as the FDA, release advice, it is sometime necessary to produce additional local guidance.  This aims to be both clear and concise advice to healthcare professionals on the local action required to implement or respond to alerts issued by the MHRA or other bodies.  These memorandums are available below for reference, once they have been circulated to the relevant professionals in primary and secondary care:

MHRA News Stories.

 11th October 2023       MHRA Press Release: SteriFeed colostrum collector not to be used to directly feed babies due to choking risk, 
                                         MHRA advises.
 15th September 2023 MHRA News:  MHRA approves Moderna’s adapted COVID-19 vaccine (Spikevax) that targets Omicron XBB.1.5

 

MHRA Company-led Drug alerts

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Pholcodine containing products class 2 meds recall EL_A_23_09.pdf

Pholcodine containing products class 2 meds recall EL_A_23_09.pdf
Summary: Following the conclusion of a review of post-marketing safety data by the MHRA, all pholcodinecontaining medicines are being recalled and withdrawn from the UK as a precaution. The Commission on Human Medicines (CHM), the independent advisory body that provides expert advice on the safety, quality and efficacy of medicines, has considered the evidence of an increased risk of the very rare event of anaphylaxis when exposed to neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBA) and advised that pholcodineco
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Created: 14 March 2023
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