FLECAINIDE Tablets Ref.[7255] Active ingredients: Flecainide

Source: Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB)  Revision Year: 2019  Publisher: Accord-UK Ltd (Trading style: Accord), Whiddon Valley, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 8NS

Product name and form

FLECAINIDE ACETATE TABLETS 100mg.

Pharmaceutical Form

Tablet.

White, circular, biconvex, uncoated tablets one side embossed with a breakline and the identifying letters “C” above the line and “FJ” below, the reverse side embossed with a breakline.

The score line is only to facilitate breaking for ease of swallowing and not to divide into equal doses.

Qualitative and quantitative composition

Each tablet contains 100mg Flecainide Acetate.

For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.

Active Ingredient Description
Flecainide

Flecainide acetate is a Class IC antiarrhythmic agent used for the treatment of severe symptomatic life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias and supraventricular arrhythmias. Electrophysiologically, flecainide is a local anaesthetic-type (Class IC) of antiarrhythmic compound. It is an amide type of local anaesthetic, being structurally related to procainamide and encainide in so far as these agents are also benzamide derivatives.

List of Excipients

Croscarmellose sodium
Magnesium stearate
Maize starch
Pregelatinised maize starch
Microcrystalline cellulose (E460)

Pack sizes and marketing

The blister packs are manufactured from 250ยตm white rigid PVC/PVDC coated with 60gm-2 PVDC and 20ยตm hard temper aluminium foil with 5-7g/mยฒ PVC/PVDC compatible heat seal lacquer. The polypropylene containers are manufactured from rigid injection moulded polypropylene with snap-on polyethylene lids. An alternative container is a polyethylene container with a snap-on polyethylene lid.

Blister: 20s, 28s, 30s, 50s, 56s, 60s, 84s, 90s, 100s, 112s, 120s, 168s, 180s.

Polypropylene container: 100s, 250s, 500s, 1000s.

Polyethylene container: 100s.

Not all pack sizes may be marketed.

Marketing authorization holder

Accord-UK Ltd (Trading style: Accord), Whiddon Valley, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 8NS

Marketing authorization dates and numbers

PL 0142/0431

03/08/2009

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