Catalogue description Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety of Drugs and Committee on Safety of Medicines: Registered Files (CSD and CSM Series)

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Reference: MH 171
Title: Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety of Drugs and Committee on Safety of Medicines: Registered Files (CSD and CSM Series)
Description:

This series contains files covering the work of the Committee on Safety of Drugs and its successor the Committee on Safety of Medicines.

Date: 1963-1976
Related material:

Minutes and papers of the Committee on Safety of Medicines are in BN 116

For files of the Medicines Commission, also established by the Medicines Act, see BN 38

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CSD file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Committee on Safety of Drugs, 1963-1968

Committee on Safety of Medicines, 1970-

Physical description: 67 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1998 Department of Health

Custodial history: Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee on Safety of Drugs was set up in 1963 and was replaced in 1968 by the Committee on Safety of Medicines following the Medicines Act, 1968. The secretariat was supplied by the Medicines, Food and Environmental Health Division of the Department of the Department of Health and Social Security Branch 2 established the same year. Analysis and professional advice was provided by the Medical PE3 Division.

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