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Health: Botox

Volume 712: debated on Monday 5 October 2009

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To ask Her Majesty's Government what monitoring exists of imports to the United Kingdom of the botulinum toxin and products containing it, such as Botox. [HL5101]

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency monitors the import of botulinum toxin where it is notified for import to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency as an unlicensed medicine for medical use, but not where it is imported as a cosmetic product for non-medical use.