Safety Notices

From time to time notices relating to the safety, efficacy and quality of human medicinal products are published by the Health Products Regulatory Authority.

The issues covered by these notices include medicinal product safety information, updated efficacy information on the appropriate usage of medicines and quality defect information.

Notices are categorised in accordance with their importance at time of publication.

The four notice categories are outlined as follows:

  • Advisory  -  Routine safety information            
  • Warning  -  Urgent safety information
  • Recall  -  Urgent safety information relating to a product recall
  • Publications  -  General information provided by 3rd parties as approved by the HPRA, e.g. MIMS, Direct Healthcare Professional Letter or Product Information Update

The HPRA Drug Safety Newsletter is also published on a regular basis.

Date Title Type
26/11/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 26 November 2019 Advisory
22/11/2019 Lucentis (ranibizumab) - Important Safety Information from Novartis Europharm Ltd as approved by the HPRA 3rd Party Publications
21/11/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 21 November 2019 Advisory
13/11/2019 HPRA MIMS Articles November 2019 3rd Party Publications
13/11/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 13 November 2019 Advisory
06/11/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 6 November 2019 Advisory
30/10/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 30 October 2019 Advisory
23/10/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 23 October 2019 Advisory
17/10/2019 HPRA MIMS Articles October 2019 3rd Party Publications
16/10/2019 Medicinal Product Shortages - update - 16 October 2019 Advisory