Interim report on heat sterilized fluids for parental administration / Medicines Commission.

  • Great Britain. Medicines Commission.
Date:
1972
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Credit: Interim report on heat sterilized fluids for parental administration / Medicines Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dear Secretary of State, On 16 March 1972 you asked the Medicines Commission “in pursuance of their functions under the Medicines Act 1968, to arrange for an immediate review of measures which should be taken in the course of production, distribution, storage and use of medicinal products to prevent them becoming vehicles of infection”’. At their meeting on 29 March 1972, the Commission appointed a Committee, of which I was made Chairman, to undertake this review and to report to them. They directed that, as a first priority, consideration should be given by the Committee to measures relating to sterile products. My Committee decided, in the first instance, to concentrate upon the manufacture of heat sterilized infusion fluids for parenteral administration. Certain points of importance con- cerning present practice in the manufacture of these fluids have been brought to our attention and we thought that they should be considered as a matter of urgency. We have therefore thought it proper to comment briefly on these and make certain re- commendations immediately .in this interim report which was accepted by the Medicines Commission on 20 July 19772. This interim report is enclosed. The Commission will now study the remainder of their remit and will report further in due course. Yours sincerely, ROSENHEIM +A