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Procter & Gamble (Health & Beauty Care) Ltd.

Procter & Gamble (Health & Beauty Care) Ltd.
The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0XP, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)191 297 5000
Fax: +44 (0)191 297 6295
WWW: http://www.uk.pg.com
Customer Care direct line: +44 (0) 8000 850367 (UK)
Customer Care direct line: +353 (1) 800 509 301 (Ireland)
Summary of Product Characteristics last updated on medicines.ie: 13/08/2010
SPC Vicks Original Cough Syrup Chesty

When a pharmaceutical company changes an SPC or PIL, a new version is published on medicines.ie. For each version, we show the dates it was published on medicines.ie and the reasons for change.

Updated on 13/08/2010 and displayed until Current
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to product name
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   01-May-2010
Legal Category:   Supply through general sale

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company

In section 1 the product name has been expanded to address the naming regulaitons and include the INN:

Vicks Original Cough Syrup Chesty

Guaifenesin 50mg/5ml

Cetylpyridinium Chloride 1.25mg/5ml

Sodium Citrate 200mg/5ml

Updated on 09/08/2010 and displayed until 13/08/2010
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to section 2 - Qualitative and quantitative composition
  • Change to section 4.2 - Posology and method of administration
  • Change to section 10 - Date of revision of the text
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   10-May-2010
Legal Category:   Supply through general sale

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company



Section 2: Excipients: Each 5ml of syrup contains glucose 1.8g, sucrose 1.8g, ethanol 0.4g has been added

Section 4.2:
Adults:                                10 ml (2  teaspoons) 
Children 6 - 12 years:         5 ml  (1  teaspoon)
To be repeated every three hours as needed

has been replaced with

Adults and children over 12years: 10 ml (2 teaspoons) to be repeated every three hours as needed

Section 10: 
July 2003 has been changed to May 2010

 

 

 

Updated on 13/02/2009 and displayed until 09/08/2010
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • New SPC for medicines.ie

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Active Ingredients

 
   Sodium Citrate
   Guaifenesin
   Cetylpyridinium Chloride

Versions

 
13/08/2010 to Current
09/08/2010 to 13/08/2010
13/02/2009 to 09/08/2010
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