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Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
How to get information including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
How the MHRA treats traditional herbal medicines and homeopathic medicines.
Guidance for Applicants wishing to apply for a Promising Innovative Medicines designation, pre-submission meeting or an EAMS Scientific Opinion.
Criteria applied by the VMD for accepting and agreeing the invented name of veterinary medicinal products.
Information on comparator products used in studies supporting abridged marketing authorisation application.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
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