New schedule amendments
April 23, 2010
THE National Drugs and Poisons
Schedule Committee has released
the final Poisons Standard
Amendment No. 1 of 2010, which
includes the rescheduling of
codeine products which comes into
effect on 01 May.
The amended schedule is now
available online, and confirms that
the only S2 codeine-containing
medications will be those for the
treatment of coughs and colds with
a maximum daily dose not
exceeding 60mg of codeine and in
packs of less than 6 days supply.
Other codeine analgesic
medications are S3 if there’s 12mg
or less of codeine per dosage unit,
with a maximum daily dose not
exceeding 100mg and in packs of
not more than 5 days supply.
The schedule also now includes
chloramphenicol in S3 for
opthalmic use only, and confirms a
number of new S4 entries including
clevidipine, mifepristone, nebivolol,
robenaxocib, ustekinumab, vaccinia
virus vaccine and red yeast rice.
There’s also a new entry in
schedule 8 for cannabis-derived
buccal spray medication nabiximols
which is also in appendix D and
appendix K of the schedule.
The S3 entry for panaprazole is
also amended to include oral
preparations containing 20mg or
less of the compound per dosage
unit for the relief of heartburn and
other symptoms of GORD, as well
as medications containing 10mg or
less of rabeprazole.
The full schedule is now online at
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