Plan for 2021 OTC Environment
A Forward View Its been a busy month for change and guidance; the remainder of September does not look different. Change is what we need to learn to live with for the remainder of 2020. We share with you [...]
Importance of Self Care Medicines
Why is this important? Self care covers a spectrum of activities but central to it all is the individual. Self care can mean a person choosing to eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away, eating less [...]
Private: OTC Experts – James Hall presents at the 2019 Consumer Healthcare Event on November 29th
Are you selling OTC products? Need to understand how to do so whilst meeting the legislation? Listen to James Hall from OTCexperts at that the November 2019 Consumer Healthcare Marketing Event presenting 'Motivating Consumers Within the Rules of the [...]
OTCToolbox 2019 Consumer Marketing Event
OTCExperts are excited to be presenting at the upcoming OTCToolbox consumer healthcare marketing event 2019. This two-day international event focuses exclusively on the interests of consumer healthcare/OTC marketeers. At the event we will be joined by highly-respected international speakers [...]
What is a medicinal product?
What is a medicinal product? The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issue guidance on cosmetics, medicines and all products in between. This is updated regularly. The status of borderline medicinal products is mostly determined in [...]
New Self Care Website
To the non OTC professional the acronym AESGP is a difficult concept to link to self care. The Association of the European Self-Care Industry (AESGP) is the voice of the manufacturers of non-prescription medicines, food supplements and self-care medical [...]
Pharmacy Show
Looking forward to networking on Monday with old contacts and hopefully new ones at the pharmacy show. You can contact us at consultancy@otcexperts.co.uk to set up a meeting.
Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
It is interesting to consider how a conversation moves from antimicrobial resistance to the near extinction of Vultures. Anyone who recently visited me at Making Pharmaceuticals may have been subjected to my newly learned tale of the near extinction [...]
New P to GSL reclassification consultation
The MHRA are proposing to make Acnecide ‘Face’ products available from general sales outlets with more limited conditions of use than the current pharmacy products. The products are Acnecide Face 5% w/w Gel and Acnecide Face Wash 5% w/w [...]
Making Pharmaceuticals 2019
Never tried a Kahoot! quiz? Then come along to see me at 1655 @Making Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday 30 April at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. Test your knowledge of the regulatory boundaries with this interactive quiz. Could your product fall [...]
A Portfolio Career Summary
Many of you will have seen that I have now added another job role to my LinkedIn portfolio. That of Regulatory Manager at Jenson R+ Limited. It may seem like a bolt out of the blue for some or [...]
Food Supplements – as you age, manage the deficiency?
Having just read an article on food supplements in the Which magazine – a classic easy to write piece about misleading combination products. It highlights that some combinations make legitimate health claims for one ingredient and provide more well [...]
Medicinal Cannabis – Commons Select Committee
In November 2018, the Government announced the rescheduling of medicinal cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. Medicinal cannabis can be prescribed by specialist doctors. In the first of its oral evidence sessions, the Health [...]
Infotainment – feedback on the Hemp & CBD Expo
As a professional with both medicines and food law experience, Cannabidiol/CBD is an area that continues to fascinate me. There are myths and facts aplenty, so it was inevitable that I would visit the Hemp & CBD Expo at [...]
FSA Explains Recent Changes Affecting Cannabidiol Products
The EU Novel Food Catalogue recently changed affecting some cannabidiol (CBD) products. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) have just issued some new guidance about CBD. The area remains in flux with many EU countries determining how they should [...]
Pain Relief – the Pharmacists Friend?
Headaches, aches and pains can affect us all, the following triggers may give special cause for Pharmacists to experience more in February 2019. Like all health care professionals’ pharmacists need to excel at plate spinning: balancing care for customers, [...]
Medical Device Claims – 01 March 2019
James Hall from OTCExperts will be presenting at the PLG/OTCToolbox conference 01 March 2019. OTCExperts will be on the morning panel talking about New Product Development. This session will cover the opportunity presented by Medical Devices. We will be [...]
Probiotics Networking Meeting 07 March 2019
Jamie Christie from NutraSolve will form part of the line up for our networking event 0n 07 March 2019, at Biocity Nottingham. Nutrasolve offers help and advice to food supplement businesses both small and large, whether as a [...]
Probiotics Networking Meeting 07 March 2019
Yes its only two weeks to go till our next free to attend networking event for food supplements. This meeting at Biocity Nottingham, will focus on probiotics or natural living bacteria. Whilst we will be able to listen [...]
Probiotics Networking Meeting 07 March 2019 – Nottingham
We are very fortunate in the East Midlands with the calibre of our local higher education institutes. On 07 March we will welcome not one but two representatives from Nottingham Trent University. They will share [...]
MHRA Update on Opioid Expert Working Group
The EWG will undertake a comprehensive independent scientific review of all available evidence on the use of opioid medicines in the UK,. This group will draw on best practice internationally. The aim is to make sure the [...]