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)
Reference: | MH 171 |
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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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