Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 344: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical products on the market here which contain paracetamol. [9555/04]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I have been informed by the Irish Medicines Board, which is the competent national authority for the regulation of medicinal products, that 120 medicinal products containing paracetamol as an active substance are currently authorised for placing on the market in Ireland, although not all are necessarily on the market at any one time.

Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will identify the regulations which govern the sale of paracetamol products [9557/04]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The sale of products containing paracetamol as an active substance is controlled by the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) Regulations 2003, SI 540 of 2003. I have arranged to have a copy of these regulations forwarded to the Deputy.