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Registered Drugs

Application for Registration of a Drug

The Minister for Health in consultation with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board is empowered by section 44(1) of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, Cap 244 and misc. ammendments of 2002 to make rules under which medicines may be imported, manufactured for sale or sold in Kenya.

PREPARATIONS LIABLE TO REGISTRATION

Products claimed to be useful for any of the following purposes:

1. Treating or preventing a disease

2. Alleviating symptoms of a disease

3. Diagnosing a disease

4. Ascertaining the existence, degree or extent of a physiological condition.

5. Preventing or interfering with the normal operation of a physiological function whether permanently or temporarily and whether by way of terminating, reducing, postponing, increasing or accelerating the operation of that function, in human beings and animals. For example: these include substances which can be used as a contraceptive or for the purpose of inducing anaesthesia.

6. Blood, blood plasma and blood preparations containing cellular elements of blood.

7. Surgical preparations such as catgut, plaster of Paris, bandages and artificial heart valves.