the old formula distributed in France until 2025

2023-09-05 16:05:55

The distribution of the old formula of Levothyrox will be extended in France in 2024 and 2025 announced, Tuesday, September 5, to Agence France-Presse the German laboratory Merck, which manufactures this treatment designed for thyroid problems. This decision follows a request from the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM).

And “huge relief” pour “regarding 100,000 patients who continued to use it every day” and that “feared she would disappear”, welcomed the French Association of Thyroid Patients (AFMT) in a press release. At the same time, Merck emphasizes “the need for healthcare professionals to support patients in finding the long-lasting treatment that best suits them, in order to anticipate the day when this old formula will no longer be available at all”.

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Court battle

The lab reminds “that these transitional imports are made from batches intended for the last countries which have not yet switched to the new formula of the drug and manufactured in a manner strictly identical to the old formula of Levothyrox, that is to say the Germany, then Russia until 2023, then Argentina from the end of this year”.

The distribution of the old formula, imported since the end of 2017 under the name of Euthyrox and which was to stop in 2020, has been extended several times, once morest the backdrop of a legal battle over the new formula, which uses the same active ingredient. , levothyroxine, but with new excipients.

Between March 2017 and April 2018, some 31,000 patients with headaches, insomnia, dizziness and other side effects had blamed the new formula.

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