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Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
How the MHRA makes decisions on what is a medicinal product (borderline products).
Search for information about medicines including patient information leaflets (PILs), details on how the medicine can be used (SmPCs) and scientific reports (PARs).
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
How to apply for a traditional herbal registration (THR) to market a herbal medicine in the UK.
Find out when it's possible to get zero-rated supplies on medical and research goods and services that have been funded by charities.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
The use of ionising radiation in medicine, including recommended dose measurements and guidance on safe radiology practice.
An overview of the process including submitting or fast tracking an application, naming your medicine and paying fees.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
The MHRA will review applications for orphan designation at the time of a marketing authorisation (MA) or variation application.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
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