CALCIUM LACTATE Tablet Ref.[27583] Active ingredients: Calcium lactate

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

CALCIUM LACTATE TABLETS BP 300mg.

Pharmaceutical Form

White uncoated tablets.

Qualitative and quantitative composition

Each tablet contains 300mg Calcium Lactate BP equivalent to 0.96mmol calcium (Ca2+).

Active Ingredient Description
Calcium lactate

Calcium lactate is used as an antacid and in calcium deficiency to treat hypocalcaemia. It can be absorbed at various pHs, thus it does not need to be taken with food. Calcium lactate is an antidote for soluble fluoride ingestion16: p165  and hydrofluoric acid.

List of Excipients

Also contains lactose, magnesium stearate, maize starch and stearic acid.

Pack sizes and marketing

The product containers are rigid injection moulded polypropylene or injection blow-moulded polyethylene containers with polyfoam wad or polyethylene ullage filler and snap-on polyethylene lids; in case any supply difficulties should arise the alternative is amber glass containers with screw caps and polyfoam wad or cotton wool. An alternative closure for polyethylene containers is a polypropylene, twist on, push down and twist off child-resistant, tamper-evident lid.

Pack sizes: 14s, 28s, 30s, 56s, 60s, 84s, 100s, 250s, 500s, 1000s.

Product may also be supplied in bulk packs, for reassembly purposes only, in polybags contained in tins, skillets or polybuckets filled with suitable cushioning material. Bulk packs are included for temporary storage of the finished product before final packaging into the proposed marketing containers.

Maximum size of bulk packs: 25,000.

Marketing authorization holder

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

Marketing authorization dates and numbers

PL 0142/6140 R

11.7.86 / 14.11.96

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