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Ministry bans painkiller
The Public Health Ministry has revoked the licence for the painkiller dipyrone and products containing the drug on the grounds that it can have a serious side-effect - a decrease in the number of white blood cells in bone marrow.
Published on July 21, 2007
The revocation was announced in the July 13 edition of the Royal Gazette, which stated that anyone wanting to appeal the ministry's drug committee decision should file a written argument to the Administrative Court within 90 days.
Food and Drug Administration secretary-general Siriwat Tiptaradol said yesterday that the drug committee in fact decided last year that as the side-effects outweighed the benefits of the drug, the licence for its production, import and export should be revoked, as was the case in many other countries.
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