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Data Sheets

Reviewed:  May 2012

Search by ingredient, trade name or company To find a data sheet: enter the active ingredient (generic name) or medicine's trade (brand) name or company (sponsor) name in the "Search for" field. You do not need to enter the whole name if you are unsure of the correct spelling. Select the type of search in the "In" field, then click on "Search". Search for:   This will search for anything starting with the letters entered above. To find the letters in any part of the field enter "%" as the first character. In: Trade name Ingredient name Sponsor name    OR Alphabetical listing of data sheets - click here

Data sheets contain detailed prescribing information on a specific medicine. Pharmaceutical companies are required to prepare data sheets for all prescription medicines and restricted (pharmacist only) medicines in accordance with the Medicines Regulations 1984 and Part 10:  Requirements for information for prescribers and consumers of the regulatory guidelines (Microsoft Word document 1870KB)  published by Medsafe.  Medsafe approves each data sheet on the basis of the company declaring that the data sheet conforms with the specified requirements and accurately reflects the product approved for distribution in New Zealand.  Data sheets are updated as required to include newly approved dose forms, strengths or indications, or to update warnings, adverse effects, contra-indications etc. as new safety information becomes available. Data sheets electronically submitted to Medsafe are available on this web site.   For copies of data sheets not currently on this site, contact the pharmaceutical company directly. Any queries relating to information contained in a data sheet should be directed to the pharmaceutical company named as the sponsor in the data sheet.

Data sheets are published on the Medsafe website in Portable Document Format (PDF).  To read a PDF you need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.  You can download the latest free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website.

Commercial Use (i.e. the on-selling) of the data sheets available on the Medsafe web site requires permission to be sought and obtained from the sponsors (pharmaceutical companies) of the medicines concerned.