HC Deb 23 May 1977 vol 932 c329W
Sir Bernard Braine

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, in the interests of health and safety, he will make public the trade names of all aerosol preparations on sale to the public containing the antibiotic neomycin, against which the Committee on Safety in Medicine has issued a warning on health grounds.

Mr. Moyle

There are no preparations for human use containing neomycin which can be sold or supplied to the public without a prescription by a doctor or dentist. Copies of the leaflet recently issued by the Committee on Safety of Medicines have been sent to all doctors, dentists, hospital principal pharmacists and retail pharmacists in the United Kingdom.

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