Pharmacy Law Flashcards
What does relevant medicinal product mean?
is a product that has
a) a registrable homeopathic medicinal product
b) a traditional herbal medicinal product.
What does medicinal product mean?
any substance or combination of substances presented as having properties of preventing or treating disease.
or any substance or combination of substances that may have been used or administered to human beings with a view to restore, correct or modify physiological function by exerting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action.
What does adminster mean ?
a) orally by injection or by introduction into the body in any other way or
b) by external application ( whether or not by direct application to the body)
What is medicinal purpose ?
treating or preventing disease
diagnosing disease or ascertaining the existence
contraception
inducing anaesthesia
preventing or interfering with the normal operation of a physiological function.
What are the three classes of medicinal products ?
General sale medicines
pharmacy medicines
prescription only medicines
Is the human medicines act first or secondary legislation
first
is an order or regulation first or secondary legislation ?
secondary
secondary legislation can be changed much more often and easily.