✨ Classification of Medicines




NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 65 β€” 11 JUNE 2015

Every reference to a medicine in this notice applies whether the medicine is synthetic in origin or is from biological or mineral sources.

Unless specific reference is made otherwise, every reference applies also to medicines that are:

a. preparations and admixtures containing any proportion of any substance listed in the notice.

b. salts and esters of any substance listed in the notice.

c. preparations or extracts of biological materials listed in the notice.

d. salts or oxides of elements listed in the notice.

Unless specific reference is made otherwise, every reference to a medicine applies:

i. if the medicine is in an injection or eye preparation, to any concentration of that medicine; and

ii. if the medicine is not in an injection or eye preparation, only if the concentration of the medicine is greater than 10 milligrams per litre or per kilogram.

Where any reference is modified by a statement of the strength of the medicine, the strength is calculated using the free acid, base, alcohol or element unless specifically stated otherwise.

Schedule 1

Prescription Medicines

Abiraterone acetate

Aclidinium bromide

Afamelanotide

Afatanib dimaleate

Aflibercept

Alogliptin

Amorolfine; except when specified elsewhere in this notice; except in preparations for the treatment of tinea pedis only or when sold in practice by a podiatrist registered with the Podiatrists Board

Amyl nitrite; except when sold to a person who holds a controlled substances licence (issued under section 95B of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996) authorising the person to possess cyanide; except when sold to an exempt laboratory covered by a Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 approved code of practice

Apixaban

Articaine; except when used as a local anaesthetic in practice by a dental therapist registered with the Dental Council

Asenapine

Avanafil

Axitinib

Azelastine; except when specified elsewhere in this notice

Belatacept

Belimumab

Bendamustine hydrochloride

Besifloxacin hydrochloride

Besifloxacine

Boceprevir

Cabazitaxel

Canagliflozin

Catumaxomab

Ceftaroline fosamil

Ceftolozane

Cholera vaccine; except in the form of an oral liquid containing Vibrio cholerae when sold in a pharmacy by a registered pharmacist

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