0910 Info Medicine Sellers

MEDICINE SELLERS’ LICENCES In most cases Schedule 2 poisons may be sold from pharmacies only. Schedule 2 poisons have the words PHARMACY MEDICINE at the top of the label. Some Schedule 2 poisons may be sold by a person who is not a pharmacist when licensed as a Medicine Seller. The penalty for selling one of these poisons without a licence may be a fine up to $10,000. A Medicine Seller’s Licence may be issued to a person who has a shop for the sale of goods by retail: •

which is open for business for at least 38 hours per week; and

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is 25 kilometres or more by the shortest practical route from the nearest pharmacy which is open for at least 3 hours daily (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) or

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if there is a genuine local community need for a medicine seller.

Persons holding a Medicine Seller's Licence may sell: Product

Pack Sizes

A Antistine Privine Eye Drops

10 ml

Actifed CC

100 ml or 200 ml

Asprodeine Soluble

24 tablets

Atrovent Nasal Spray

15 ml

C Cepacol Anaethetic Lozenges

16 lozenges

Claratyne Effervescent Tablets 10 mg

10 tablets

Claratyne Tablets 10 mg

10 or 30 tablets

Claratyne Syrup 1 mg/ml

100 ml

Clarinase Tablets

10 tablets

Clear Eyes

15 ml

Codis Tablets

24 tablets

Codral Tablets

20 tablets

Combantryn Granules

2.5 g or 4 g

Combantryn Suspension

15 ml or 50 ml

Combantryn Tablets 125mg

6 or 18 tablets

Combantryn Tablets 250mg

6 tablets

D Dequadin MU Paint

10 ml

Disprin Tablets

50 tablets

Drixine Drops

15 ml

Drixine Metered Pump Spray

15 ml

Drixine Metered Pump Spray refill

15 ml

Drixine Spray

15 ml

Drixine Paediatric drops

15 ml

Dymadon Suspension

100 ml

Dymadon Tablets

30 or 50 tablets

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E Ecostatin Cream 1%

20 grams

Ecostatin Dusting Powder 1%

20 grams

F Fefol Capsules

30, 60 capsules

Feldene Gel 5 mg/g

25 or 50 grams

Fergon Elixir

100 ml

Ferro-gradumet Tablets

30 or 60 tablets

FGF Tablets

30 or 60 tablets

Flurets Tablets

100 tablets

Flurets Paediatric Drops

50 ml

G Gastrostop Capsules 2mg

6 capsules

I Imodium Capsules 2 mg

4 or 5 or 8 capsules

Indospray 1%

50 ml or 200 ml

K Kwells Tablets

10 tablets

L Lamisil Cream 1%

15 grams

Lamisil Dermagel 1%

5, 15 or 30 grams

Lip-sed Cold Sore Lotion

6 ml

Livostin Eye Drops

4 ml

Livostin Nasal Spray

10 ml

Lomide Eye Drops 0.1 %

10 ml

Lorastyne Tablets 10 mg

10 or 30 Tablets

Lorastyne Syrup 1 mg/ml

100 ml

M Mucaine Suspension

200 ml or 500 ml

Mucaine Tablets

100 tablets

Mycospor Cream

15 grams

Mycostatin Cream

15 grams

Mycostatin Ointment

15 grams

N Naprogesic

12 tablets

Nilstat Cream

15 grams

Nizoral Cream 2%

30 grams

Nizoral Shampoo 2%

60 ml or 6x6 ml sachets

O Opticrom Eye Drops 2%

10 ml

Ora-sed Lotion

6 ml

Otrivin Nose Drops

15 ml

Otrivin Nasal Spray

15 ml

Otrivin Nasal for children

15 ml

Orudis Gel 2.5%

30 or 60 grams

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P Panadol Tablets

50 tablets

Panadol Drops

20 ml

Panadol Elixir

100 ml or 200 ml

Panadeine Tablets

12 or 24

Paxyl Cream

35 g or 75 g

Paxyl Lotion

150 ml

Paxyl Spray

125 ml

Pevaryl Cream 1%

20 grams

Pevaryl Lotion 1%

20 ml

Pevaryl Dusting Powder 1%

30 grams

Ponstan capsules

20 capsules

Prantal Powder

50 g

R Rynacrom Nasal Spray 2%

26 ml

Rynacrom Nasal Spray 4%

15 ml

S Sinex Spray

15 ml

Sinex Metered Pump Spray

20 ml

Sinex Metered Pump Spray refill

20 ml

SM-33 Gel

10 g

SM-33 Liquid

10 ml

T Telfast Capsules 60 mg

20 capsules

Telfast Tablets 120 mg

10 or 30 tablets

Telfast Tablets 180 mg

10 or 30 tablets

Tempra Drops

25 ml

Tempra Syrup

150 ml

Travacalm Tablets

10 tablets

Triprofen Tablets 200 mg

24 or 48 tablets

V Vectavir Cream

2 or 5 gram

Veganin Tablets

20 tablets

Vermox Tablets

2 or 6 tablets

Vermox Suspension

25 ml

Vermox Family Combination Pack Visine Eye Drops

15 ml

Voltaren Emulgel

100 grams

Z Zovirax Cold sore cream

2 grams

Zyrtec Tablets 10 mg

Zyrtec Oral Solution 1mg/mL NOTE: The above list is not a complete list of products containing Schedule 2 poisons available to the licensee.

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A medicine seller can not sell the following poisons: Aloxiprin Aspirin in packs of more than 50 dosage units (Aspro, Disprin, or Bayer Aspirin) Cinnamedrine Dicophane (DDT) [Note all use has been prohibited] Dicyclomine in preparations for infants (Infacol C, Merbentyl Syrup) Dimethisoquin Erythrityl tetranitrate Etafedrine Ethoheptazine Glyceryl trinitrate (Anginine, Nitradisc Nitrobid Ointment or Transiderm-nitro) Isopropamide Isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil or Isotrate) Methoxyphenamine Methylephedrine Nitrate esters of polycyclic alcohols (Peritrate) Noscapine Paracetamol in packs of more than 50 dosage units (Dymadon, Panacete or Panadol) Phedrazine Podophyllin (Posalfilin, Salicyn-P, or Wart-kil) Podophyllotoxin (Wartec) Potassium chlorate Pramoxine Procyclidine Pseudoephedrine Sodium nitrite (OAR Powder or Tablets) NOTE: The above list is not complete in respect of products which contain the poisons named.

Applicant bona fides Before issuing a licence the Department of Health may make any enquiries necessary to establish the bona fides of the applicant and to ascertain if they are a fit and proper person to hold a licence. Please include the following with your application:•

The current certificate(s) of registration of your company and/or trading names including the names and addresses of the company directors; or

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The names of the persons running the business where there is no company name but there is a trading name, and the current certificate(s) of registration of trading names; or

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The names of the persons running the business where there is no company name or trading name.

Expiry Date Medicine sellers’ licences expire on the 30 November following the date of issue. New licences are therefore issued for varying periods of time, from 1 to 12 months, depending on the date of application. Thereafter, if renewed, licences are issued for further periods of twelve months.

Licence Fees The fees for a medicine seller’s licence for various periods of time are shown in the following table: Month of issue

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Fee $

35.50

32.50

29.50

26.50

23.60

20.70

17.70

14.80

11.80

8.85

5.90

2.95

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Licence Conditions Special Regulations apply to the storage and sale of these medicines. Medicine Sellers’ Licences also have conditions attached to them and the licensee must comply with these conditions as well as the regulations. The penalty for non-compliance with a condition of the licence is a fine up to $5000. In addition if the licensee is convicted of an offence under the Act or regulations or, in the opinion of the Department of Health, has failed to comply with a condition the licence may be revoked. Regulations and licence conditions include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following: Schedule 2 poisons (medicines) must be stored in a part of the shop which is not accessible to the public for self selection of goods; or on a shelf 1.2 metres or more above floor level and located away from steps, stairways, ramps or escalators ( that is, out of reach of a five year old child) unless the container: •

is fitted with a child-resistant lid;

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is enclosed in a blister pack; or

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contains more than 5 litres or 5 kilograms; and

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is away from human or animal food; or in such a manner that if leakage or spillage occurs human or animal food will not be contaminated.

Schedule 2 poisons (medicines) must not be displayed in floor or dump bins or at the check-out or cash register. Other conditions may be included on a licence for special circumstances which may apply to one licensee or to medicine sellers generally. (CSA 15, 55; PO 10, 11)

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES LICENSING Public Health Department of Health PO Box 6, Rundle Mall ADELAIDE 5000

Michael Cooper Phone: (08) 8226 7117 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (08) 8226 6681

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