Catalogue description Medicines Commission: Minutes and Papers

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Reference: BN 38
Title: Medicines Commission: Minutes and Papers
Description:

Minutes and papers of Medicines Commission (MC) meetings.

Date: 1969-1988
Related material:

For records of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, also established by the Medicines Act, see MH 171

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Medicines Commission, 1969-

Physical description: 133 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1987 Department of Health and Social Security

Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Medicines Commission was established in 1969, under the terms of the Medicines Index Act 1968. Its duty is to advise a body of ministers of the Department of Health and Ministery of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on matters relating to the execution of the act and, in particular, on the licensing and certification of medicinal products.

The act requires that the commission has at least eight members. Members are appointed by the body of ministers, after consultation, and includes members with no scientific background as well as people with wide and recent experience in the fields of medicine (including veterinary medicine), pharmaceutics, and chemistry.

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