Posted by Ken Blades on March 6, 2007, at 1:49:20
In reply to Re: ok basically GSK wanted to save $$, posted by halcyondaze on March 5, 2007, at 18:41:39
I think you're misreading/misunderstanding the
context of the FDA letter to SmithKline Beecham
[now Glaxo SmithKline].Some of the changes were requested by SKB/GSK,
and these were dated long before the 2001 date
of the letter[look at all the dates in the first few lines before the S-037, 1988 to 1996]; they were merely referenced
to in this letter. Other changes were requested
by the FDA. The letter's date of 2001 does not mean that all the changes were made in 2001.I have in my hand a package insert with a date of
issuance January 1995[really!]. Under 'description', the text is as follows:NOTE: Parnate[tranylcypromine sulfate]tablets
have been changed from rose-red sugar-coated
tablets to rose-red film-coated tablets. The
film-coated tablets differ in size from the
sugar-coated tablets, but the drug content
remains unchanged.Under 'how supplied':
Parnate is supplied as round, rose-red, film-coated tablets imprinted with the product name PARNATE and SKF and contains tranylcypromine sulfate equivalent to 10 mg. of tranylcypromine,
in bottles of 100 with a dessicant.
-----Notice that the letters 'SKF' are still used on
the tablets according to the 'how supplied'
wording.Smith Kline & French[SKF] was a division of Smith Kline Beckman[not Beecham] Corporation.
In 1989, Smith Kline Beckman and The Beecham Group Plc[UK] merge to form SmithKline Beecham.
In 2000, Glaxo SmithKline was formed through the merger of Glaxo Wellcome[UK] and SmithKline Beecham[UK].So...even though by 1995, the date of the
product leaflet, SKF had become SKB, SKF
was still[supposedly]printed on the tablets.
I don't have any tablets left over from 1997
[the year I started taking Parnate and the
year that leaflet was acquired by me]so I can't
tell you what they actually said on them lol.The ones I have now say Parnate SB in black.
The latest product information insert reads
as follows:
HOW SUPPLIED
Parnate is supplied as round, rose-red, film-coated tablets debossed with the product name
PARNATE and SB and contains tranylcypromine sulfate equivalent to 10 mg of
tranylcypromine, in bottles of 100 with a desiccant, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, North
Chicago, IL 60064.
10 mg 100’s: NDC 0007-4471-20
Store between 15° and 30°C (59° and 86°F).GlaxoSmithKline
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
©2006, GlaxoSmithKline. All rights reserved.
March 2006-----So...it appears that the debossed tablets
have replaced the black printed ones as you have
seen.However, if you're still getting the 'old'
black printed ones, don't get upset. I'm still
getting them too. It takes awhile to exhaust the
existing stocks of the older tablets['first in, first out'] that are out in warehouses and no
doubt even in stock at GSK until recently, but
now that you are getting the new tablets, GSK
must have exhausted its supply of the 'old' ones.
Those 'old' ones are not from before 2001. Remember that depending on the particular drug,
the 'dispense by' date can be three years or
so from the date of manufacture.Ken
poster:Ken Blades
thread:738386
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