LARIAM Tablets Ref.[8393] Active ingredients: Mefloquine

Source: Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (GB)  Revision Year: 2019  Publisher: CHEPLAPHARM Arzneimittel GmbH, Ziegelhof 24, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

Product name and form

Lariam 250mg tablets.

Pharmaceutical Form

Tablet.

White to off-white cylindrical biplanar tablets, cross scored and imprinted with LA-RI-AM-CP on one face.

Qualitative and quantitative composition

Each tablet contains 250 mg mefloquine (as 274.09 mg mefloquine hydrochloride).

Each tablet contains 50.61 mg of lactose monohydrate.

For the full list of excipients, see section 6.1.

Active Ingredient Description
Mefloquine

Mefloquine acts on and destroys the asexual intraerythocytic forms of the human malaria parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax. P. malariae and P. ovale. It is effective in the treatment and prophylaxis of malaria.

List of Excipients

Microcrystalline cellulose
Lactose
Crospovidone
Maize starch
Ammonium-calcium alginate
Poloxamer (polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene copolymer)
Talc
Magnesium stearate

Pack sizes and marketing

Aluminium foil packs containing 8 tablets.

Marketing authorization holder

CHEPLAPHARM Arzneimittel GmbH, Ziegelhof 24, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

Marketing authorization dates and numbers

PL 27041/0012

5 October 1989 / 1 February 2004

Drugs

Drug Countries
LARIAM Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Malta, Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa

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