Product name: Combination barbiturate product
Country |
Effective Date |
Description of action taken Grounds for decision |
Saudi Arabia |
June 1999 |
The Ministry of Health has withdrawn from the market a fixed combination barbiturate product containing phenobarbital, febarbamate and difebarbamate because of reports of hepatotoxicity. (Reference: Communication from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean enclosing a notification from the Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia, 20 June 1999.) |