Source: Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB) Revision Year: 2019 Publisher: Accord-UK Ltd (Trading style: Accord), Whiddon Valley, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 8NS
FOLIC ACID TABLETS BP 5mg.
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Yellow uncoated tablets. |
Each tablet contains 5mg Folic Acid.
Excipient with known effect: 44.45mg lactose monohydrate per tablet.
For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.
| Active Ingredient | Description | |
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| Folic acid |
Folic acid is a member of the vitamin B group which is reduced in the body to tetrahydrofolate, a co-enzyme active in several metabolic processes and produces a haemopoietic response in nutritional megaloblastic anaemias. Folic acid is rapidly absorbed and widely distributed in body tissues. |
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Also contains: Colloidal silica |
The product containers are rigid injection moulded polypropylene or injection blow-moulded polyethylene containers and snap-on polyethylene lids; in case any supply difficulties should arise the alternative is amber glass containers with screw caps.
The product may also be supplied in blister packs and cartons:
Blister pack sizes: 7s, 10s, 14s, 21s, 28s, 30s, 56s, 60s, 84s, 90s, 100s, 112s, 500s, 1000s
Securitainers pack sizes: 7s, 10s, 14s, 21s, 28s, 30s, 56s, 60s, 84s, 90s, 100s, 112s, 500s, 1000s
Product may also be supplied in bulk, for reassembly purposes only, in polybags contained in tins, skillets or polybuckets filled with suitable cushioning material.
Maximum size of bulk packs: 150,000.
Accord-UK Ltd (Trading style: Accord), Whiddon Valley, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 8NS
PL 0142/5522 R
Date of first authorisation: 15.1.87
Date of latest renewal: 05.06.03
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