News
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The Danish Medicines Agency will be closed on Friday 10 May 2024
| 30 April 2024 |
The Danish Medicines Agency will be closed on Friday 10 May, the day after Ascension Day. However, we process urgent applications for compassionate use permits (applications for dispensing of non-marketed medicines produced by a pharmaceutical company).
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Status for the project regarding the control of anti-tampering devices (ATD) on medicinal product packages
| 25 April 2024 |
Information for marketing authorisation holders (MAH). The Danish Medicines Agency's laboratory is currently working on a project to check the anti-tampering device (ATD) on selected medicinal product packages. Approx. 10% of the packages requisitioned so far had an ATD that did not work. The flawed devices are designed as a sticker, that can be removed without it being visible on the packaging. We encourage marketing authorisation holders to test their ATDs to avoid unauthorised access to the medicinal products.
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Danish Medicines Agency establishes that chronic urticaria could be a side effect of the Spikevax vaccine
| 05 April 2024 |
The European Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has reassessed if chronic urticaria could be a side effect after vaccination with the Spikevax vaccine from Moderna. This follows a review from the Danish Medicines Agency, which has investigated data and reports from patients across the European countries.