RINOZAL Film-coated tablet Ref.[51166] Active ingredients: Levocetirizine

Source: Health Products Regulatory Authority (IE)  Revision Year: 2018  Publisher: Clonmel Healthcare Ltd., Waterford Road, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

Product name and form

Rinozal 5 mg film-coated tablets.

Pharmaceutical Form

Film-coated tablet.

White to off-white, oval, biconvex film-coated tablets, debossed with ‘L9CZ’ on one side and ‘5’ on the other side.

Qualitative and quantitative composition

Each film-coated tablet contains 5 mg levocetirizine dihydrochloride (equivalent to 4.2 mg of levocetirizine).

Excipient with known effect: Each film-coated tablet contains 64.0 mg lactose monohydrate.

For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.

Active Ingredient Description
Levocetirizine

Levocetirizine, the ® enantiomer of cetirizine, is a potent and selective antagonist of peripheral H1-receptors. Pharmacodynamic studies in healthy volunteers demonstrate that, at half the dose, levocetirizine has comparable activity to cetirizine, both in the skin and in the nose.

List of Excipients

Tablet core:

Lactose monohydrate
Cellulose microcrystalline
Magnesium stearate (E572)

Film-coating:

Hypromellose (E464)
Titanium dioxide (E171)
Macrogol 400

Pack sizes and marketing

PVC/PVDC:Al blisters or oPA/Al/PVC:Al blisters

Pack sizes:

Blisters containing 10, 14, 20, 28, 40, 50, 60, 80 or 100 tablets.

Unit dose blisters containing: 30x1 tablets.

Not all pack sizes may be marketed

Marketing authorization holder

Clonmel Healthcare Ltd., Waterford Road, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

Marketing authorization dates and numbers

PA0126/179/001

Date of first authorisation: 9th October 2009
Date of last renewal: 21st June 2012

Drugs

Drug Countries
RINOZAL Ireland, Malta

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