Identifying Foreign Medicines

Public data from Article 57 database on all medicines authorised in the European Economic Area (EEA) – European Medicines Agency (EMA)

As of July 2018, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) publishes data from the Article 57 database on all medicines authorised in the European Economic Area (EEA).

• Source: ema.europe.eu
• Pharmacy Resource: Data
• Country: Europe
• Register to Access Content: No

International Drug Names from Drugs.com

The Drugs.com International Drug Name Database contains information about medications found in 185 countries around the world. The database contains more than 40,000 medication names marketed outside the USA and is presented in multiple languages.

• Source: drugs.com
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Worldwide
• Register to Access Content: No

Australian Government – Department of Health
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
A-Z medicine listing

Viewing by drug / brand name

• Source: pbs.gov.au
• Pharmacy Resource: Listing
• Country: Australia
• Register to Access Content: No

Medicine Finder | NPS MedicineWise

Providing independent, evidence-based information about medicines, medical tests and other health technologies for all Australians.

• Source: nps.org.au
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Australia
• Register to Access Content: No

Search Medication Information

Search Australia’s largest free database of Consumer Medicines Information, for CMIs on prescription and over-the-counter medicines.

• Source: mydr.com.au
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Australia
• Register to Access Content: No

Belgian Centre for Pharmacotherapeutic Information

• Source: bcfi.be
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Belgium (Website in Dutch and French)
• Register to Access Content: No

Health Canada Drug Product Database

Search the Drug Product Database (DPD) to find drugs authorized for sale by Health Canada.

• Source: canada.ca
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Canada
• Register to Access Content: No

State Institute for Drug Control
Medicinal products database

• Source: sukl.eu
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Czech Republic (SPCs and PILs in Czech)
• Register to Access Content: No

Danish Medicines Agency

Summaries of product characteristics of all authorised medicines are available. The summaries contain the most important information about the medicines, including active substances, effects and side effects, dosage and warnings.

You can find the summaries of product characteristics of medicines authorised by the Danish Medicines Agency at produktresume.dk

A package leaflet with information about the medicine comes with all medicine packs. You can find all the package leaflets placed in packs of medicine that are sold in Denmark at indlaegsseddel.dk

• Source: laegemiddelstyrelsen.dk
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Denmark (Summaries of Product Characteristics and Package Leaflets in Danish)
• Register to Access Content: No

Republic of Estonia
Agency of Medicines
Medicinal products authorised in Estonia

Register of Medicinal Products

• Source: ravimiamet.ee
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Estonia (SPCs and PILs in Estonian)
• Register to Access Content: No

Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea
Human medicinal products

The Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea publishes on its website Summaries of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and Package Leaflets (PL) for all medicinal products approved by Fimea through a national, decentralised or mutual recognition procedure.

• Source: fimea.fi
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Finland (SPCs in Finnish and PLs in Finnish and Swedish)
• Register to Access Content: No

Vidal

• Source: vidal.fr
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: France (Website in French)
• Register to Access Content: No

Rote Liste

• Source: rote-liste.de
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Germany (Website in German)
• Register to Access Content: No

Drug Office – Department of Health – The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Search Drug Database

The Drug Office is the law enforcement agency over the legislations concerning medicines. It also provides for the procurement and dispensing of medicines at the clinics of the Department.

• Source: drugoffice.gov.hk
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Hong Kong
• Register to Access Content: No

egeszsegkalauz.hu

• Source: egeszsegkalauz.hu
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Hungary (Website in Hungarian)
• Register to Access Content: No

Icelandic Medicines Agency (IMA)

• Source: ima.is
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Iceland (Website in Icelandic)
• Register to Access Content: No

MedGuideIndia.com

• Source: medguideindia.com
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: India
• Register to Access Content: No

Medicines.ie – medicines information online | medicines information for residents in Ireland

medicines.ie contains accurate, up to date, regulator approved information on medicines available in Ireland.

The information for each product comes in the form of a Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC or SmPC) and Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) or Package Leaflet (PL), where relevant. These documents are approved by the medicines’ regulator (HPRA or EMA) as part of the process of authorising a medicine for sale or supply in Ireland.

• Source: medicines.ie
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Ireland
• Register to Access Content: No

The Israel Drug Registry

This service allows users to search for information about medications registered in the Drug Registry by the Pharmaceutics Division of the Ministry of Health.

• Source: health.gov.il
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Israel (Website in Hebrew)
• Register to Access Content: No

Japan – Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency 

The information, such as Package Inserts (in Japanese), Review Reports etc., are available here. Search system for each product type (in Japanese)

• Prescription Drugs
• OTCs

• Source: pmda.go.jp
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Japan (Website in Japanese)
• Register to Access Content: No

Medicinal product register of the Republic of Latvia

The Medicinal Product Register of Latvia is maintained and updated by the State Agency of Medicines. It provides updated and officially confirmed information regarding medicinal products for healthcare professionals and patients. The Register includes information regarding medicines authorised via the national, mutual recognition, decentralised and centralised procedures, as well as parallel imported medicines.

• Source: zva.gov.lv
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Latvia (Package Leaflets and Summaries of Product Characteristics in Latvian)
• Register to Access Content: No

State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania
Register of Medicinal Products

• Source: vvkt.lt
• Pharmacy Resource: Register
• Country: Lithuania (Search Results in Lithuanian)
• Register to Access Content: No

Product Search
National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency – Ministry of Health Malaysia

Search Pharmaceutical, Complimentary & Alternative Products that registered with National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency, NPRA. You may also search cosmetic products notified with NPRA

• Source: npra.gov.my
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Malaysia
• Register to Access Content: No

College ter Beoordeling van Geneesmiddelen Medicines Evaluation Board

In the Medicines Information Bank of the MEB you can find the official information about all medicines available in the Netherlands, such as the scientific product information, the public assessment report and the patient information leaflet.

• Source: cbg-meb.nl
• Pharmacy Resource: Data Bank
• Country: Netherlands (Product Information in Dutch)
• Register to Access Content: No

Pharmaceutical Management Agency
Online Pharmaceutical Schedule

The New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is a list of the prescription medicines and therapeutic products subsidised by the Government.

• Source: pharmac.govt.nz
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: New Zealand
• Register to Access Content: No

Medsafe
New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority
Data Sheets and Consumer Medicine Information

Data Sheets and Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) are published here on behalf of pharmaceutical companies.

• Source: medsafe.govt.nz
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: New Zealand
• Register to Access Content: No

The Norwegian Medicines Agency

• Source: legemiddelverket.no
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Norway (Website in Norwegian)
• Register to Access Content: No

PakMediNet

Search Drug Index of Pakistan

• Source: pakmedinet.com
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Pakistan
• Register to Access Content: No

INFARMED
InfoMed – Medicinal products database

• Source: infarmed.pt
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Portugal (Website in Portuguese)
• Register to Access Content: No

National Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices of Romania

• Source: anm.ro
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Romania (Patient Information Leaflets and Summaries of Product Characteristics in Romanian)
• Register to Access Content: No

Vidal

• Source: vidal.ru
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Russia (Website in Russian)
• Register to Access Content: No

State Institute for Drug Control

The State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC) is the institution of the state authority in the field of human pharmacy and drug precursors. The SIDC is headed by a director, who is appointed and dismissed by the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic.

• Source: sukl.sk
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Slovak Republic (Patient Information Leaflets and Summaries of Product Characteristics in Slovak)
• Register to Access Content: No

FASS.se

• Source: fass.se
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Sweden (Website in Swedish)
• Register to Access Content: No

Läkemedelsverket
Swedish Medical Products Agency

The Medical Products Agency (MPA) is the Swedish national authority responsible for regulation and surveillance of the development, manufacturing and marketing of drugs and other medicinal products.

• Source: lakemedelsverket.se
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Sweden (Database in Swedish)
• Register to Access Content: No

Compendium.ch

Welcome to the original medicines Compendium of Switzerland

• Source: compendium.ch
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Switzerland (Package Leaflets and Professional Information in German and French)
• Register to Access Content: No

electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)

The electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) contains up to date, easily accessible information about medicines licensed for use in the UK. The eMC has more than 10,600 documents, all of which have been checked and approved by either the UK or European government agencies which license medicines. These agencies are the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

• Source: medicines.org.uk
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: UK
• Register to Access Content: No

Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations

To provide timely consumer information on generic drugs, the Electronic Orange Book is updated daily as new generic approvals occur.

• Source: fda.gov
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: USA
• Register to Access Content: No

P.R. Vademecum

• Argentina
• Brasil
• Chile
• Espana
• Mexico

• Source: prvademecum.com
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Espana, Mexico
• Register to Access Content: No

OTC ingredients
Association of the European Self-Medication Industry

The Association of the European Self-Care Industry (AESGP) is a non-profit organisation which represents the manufacturers of non-prescription medicines, food supplements and self-care medical devices in Europe, an area also referred to as consumer healthcare products.

• Source: aesgp.eu
• Pharmacy Resource: Database
• Country: Europe
• Register to Access Content: No