Series
Department of Health: Health Services Human Growth Hormone Committee: Health Services...
Catalogue reference: JA 260
What's it about?
JA 260
This series contains files relating to the Secretary of State's licences for the development of Human Growth Hormone products, The Health Services Human Growth Hormone Committee, The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 260
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health: Health Services Human Growth Hormone Committee: Health Services Pituitary Collection and Distribution Committee: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1974-2006
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files relating to the Secretary of State's licences for the development of Human Growth Hormone products, The Health Services Human Growth Hormone Committee, The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), The Steering Committee for Human Pituitary Collection and other general human growth hormone matters
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- APH, GED, PKL, PVR and SER file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 225 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2018 Department of Health
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Prefix was first issued from Central File Records to File Office 172, Office of the Chief Pharmacist in 1991 to replace the old file abbreviations APPP (Appliances) and DISP (Dispensing). Prefix was still in use by branch in 1999. Recorded as transferred to File Office 98 in 2004 when the title was changed from Pharmaceutical Matters to Office of Chief Pharmacist. Recorded on the Central File Registry as closed in 2007.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The majority of the pharmaceutical product licence files have not been selected.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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There was a major legal case in 1996 surrounding the use of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) and subsequent development of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD) in a number of patients treated with it. HGH is now created synthetically but initially it had been 'harvested' from the pituitary glands of cadavers in mortuaries and it was alleged that contaminated products were created through the collection of glands from some patients who may have died from brain diseases.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18594/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: JA
Records created or inherited by the Department of Health (1988-)
You are currently looking at the series: JA 260
Department of Health: Health Services Human Growth Hormone Committee: Health Services Pituitary Collection and Distribution Committee: Registered Files