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Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety...

Catalogue reference: MH 171

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MH 171

This series contains files covering the work of the Committee on Safety of Drugs and its successor the Committee on Safety of Medicines.

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Reference

MH 171

Title
Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety of Drugs and Committee on Safety of Medicines: Registered Files (CSD and CSM Series)
Date

1963-1976

Description

This series contains files covering the work of the Committee on Safety of Drugs and its successor the Committee on Safety of Medicines.

Related material

For files of the Medicines Commission, also established by the Medicines Act, see BN 38

Minutes and papers of the Committee on Safety of Medicines are in BN 116

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

CSD file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Committee on Safety of Drugs, 1963-1968
  • Committee on Safety of Medicines, 1970-1970
Physical description

67 file(s)

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Immediate source of acquisition

from 1998 Department of Health

Custodial history

Transferred to the Department of Health in 1988.

Accruals

Series is accruing.

Administrative / biographical background

The Committee on Safety of Drugs was set up in 1963 and was replaced in 1968 by the Committee on Safety of Medicines following the Medicines Act, 1968. The secretariat was supplied by the Medicines, Food and Environmental Health Division of the Department of the Department of Health and Social Security Branch 2 established the same year. Analysis and professional advice was provided by the Medical PE3 Division.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11009/

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Ministry of Health and Department of Health and Social Security: Committee on Safety of Drugs and Committee on Safety of Medicines: Registered Files (CSD and CSM Series)