Table 2 Specific technical requirements in medicine legislation for countries which include requirements for outer packaging labelling [24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51].
Country | Medicines Legislation |
|---|---|
Angola | None |
Botswana | Information required for preservatives, ingredients such as paracetamol, aspirin and specific formulations, e.g., oral rehydration salts |
Malawi | None |
Mauritius | Requirement to include the following statement, “MOH & Wellness NOT FOR SALE” |
Mozambique | None |
Namibia | Information required for preservatives, ingredients such as paracetamol, tartrazine |
South Africa | Requirements for barcode suitable for identification and tracking; South Africa is the only country that has provision for inclusion of regulatory information from other jurisdictions, i.e., manufacturer details and date, scheduling status and registration number allocated by other NMRAs |
Seychelles | None |
Tanzania | Special precautions for disposal of unused medicines or waste material from unused medicines, reimbursement conditions for social security, identification and authenticity, statement re government ownership of medicine |
Zambia | None |
Zimbabwe | Name and percentage of bacteriostatic or bactericidal agents |