DFS4030 - Technical Guidance: What are medicinal products?

For DFS purposes, a product is classed as a medicinal  product:

• any substance or combination of substances presented  as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human beings; or
• any substance or combination of substances which may be used in or administered to human beings either with a view to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions by exerting a pharmacological, immunological or metabolic action, or to making a medical diagnosis. 

In the UK, the agency responsible for regulating medicines is the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Details can be found at www.mhra.gov.uk.