Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
To which companies the Medicines Control Agency has written in the last 12 months notifying them that it is considering classifying as a medicine products which they currently market as a food, indicating in each case the ingredients concerned and (a) the scientific and (b) the legal basis for the action. [HL1879]
§ Baroness HaymanThe Medicines Control Agency has considered the classification of over 900 products in112WA the last 12 months. To give a specific reply to the noble Earl's Question would involve disproportionate costs.