The Medicines (Fluted Bottles) Regulations 1978

Regulations 2 and 3

SCHEDULE

SubstanceCircumstances exempting from the requirements to contain medicinal products in a fluted bottle
1. Aconite, alkaloids of.
2. Adrenaline; its salts.
3. Amino-alcohols esterified with benzoic acid, phenylacetic acid, phenylpropionic acid, cinnamic acid or the derivatives of these acids; their salts.
4. p-Aminobenzenesulphonamide; its salts; derivatives of p-aminobenzene sulphonamide having any of the hydrogen atoms of the p-amino group or of the sulphonamide group substituted by another radical; their salts.
5. p-Aminobenzoic acid; esters of; their salts.
6. Ammonia—medicinal products containing less than 5 per cent. weight in weight of ammonia.

7. Arsenical substances, the following—

  • Arsenic Sulphides

  • Arsenates

  • Arsenites

  • Halides of Arsenic

  • Oxides of Arsenic

  • Organic Compounds of Arsenic.

8. Atropine; its salts.
9. Cantharidin; cantharidates.
10. Carbachol.
11. Chloral; its addition and its condensation products other than alphachloralose; their molecular compounds.
12. Chloroform—medicinal products containing less than 1 per cent. volume in volume of chloroform.
13. Cocaine; its salts.
14. Creosote obtained from wood—medicinal products containing less than 50 per cent. volume in volume of creosote obtained from wood.
15. Croton, oil of.
16. Demecarium Bromide.
17. Dyflos.
18. Ecothiopate Iodide.
19. Ephedrine; its salts—medicinal products containing less than the equivalent of 1 per cent. weight in volume of ephedrine.
20. Ethylmorphine; its salts.
21. Homatropine; its salts.
22. Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; potassium fluoride; sodium fluoride; sodium silicofluoride.mouth washes containing not more than 0.05 per cent. weight in volume of sodium fluoride.
23. Hyoscine; its salts.
24. Hyoscyamine; its salts.
25. Lead Acetates—medicinal products containing lead acetates equivalent to not more than 2.2 per cent. weight in volume of lead calculated as elemental lead.
26. Mercury, oxides of; nitrates of mercury; mercuric ammonium chloride; mercuric chloride; mercuric iodide; potassium mercuric iodide; organic compounds of mercury; mercuric oxycyanide; mercuric thiocyanate.medicinal products containing not more than 0.01 per cent. weight in volume of phenyl mercuric salts or 0.01 per cent. weight in volume of sodium ethyl mercurithiosalicylate as a preservative.
27. Nitric Acid—medicinal products containing less than 9 per cent. weight in weight of nitric acid.
28. Opium.
29. Phenols (any member of the series of phenols of which the first member is phenol and of which the molecular composition varies from member to member by one atom of carbon and two atoms of hydrogen); compounds of phenol with a metal.

(a) medicinal products containing one or more of the following:—

  • Butylated hydroxytoluene.

  • Carvacrol.

  • Creosote obtained from coal tar.

  • Essential oils in which phenols occur naturally.

  • Tar (coal or wood), crude or refined.

  • tert-Butylcresol.

  • p-tert-Butylphenol.

  • p-tert-Pentylphenol.

  • p-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)

  • phenol.

  • Thymol.

(b) mouth washes containing less than 2.5 per cent. weight in volume of phenols.

(c) any liquid disinfectants or antiseptics not containing phenol and containing less than 2.5 per cent. weight in volume of other phenols.

(d) other medicinal products containing less than 1 per cent. weight in volume of phenols.

30. Physostigmine; its salts.
31. Picric Acid—medicinal products containing less than 5 per cent. weight in volume of picric acid.
32. Pilocarpine; its salts.medicinal products containing less than the equivalent of 0.025 per cent. weight in volume of pilocarpine.
33. Podophyllum Resin—medicinal products containing not more than 1.5 per cent. weight in weight of podophyllum resin.
34. Solanaceous alkaloids not otherwise included in this Schedule.