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United Kingdom: Imposition of an export ban on certain medicines (April 2024)

Announcement

24 Apr 2024

In April 2024, the UK modified the list of medicines that cannot be exported from the UK.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

24 Apr 2024

Revocation date:

13 Nov 2024

Announced: 24 Apr 2024
Export ban
On 24 April 2024, the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom added two pharmaceutical drugs, Vinblastine and Aztreonam, to the list of medicines that cannot be exported from the UK...
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