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Pfizer Limited
Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9NJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1304 616 161
Fax: +44 (0)1304 656 221

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Patient Information Leaflet last updated on the eMC: 07/01/2010
PIL Feldene Capsules

When a pharmaceutical company changes an SPC or PIL, a new version is published on the eMC. For each version, we show the dates it was published on the eMC and the reasons for change.

Updated on 07/01/2010 and displayed until Current
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to date of revision
  • Introduction of new pack/pack size
Updated on 29/07/2009 and displayed until 07/01/2010
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change of trade or generic name
  • Change to date of revision
  • Change to warnings or special precautions for use
  • Change of contra-indications
  • Change to drug interactions
  • Change to information about pregnancy or lactation
  • Change to information about driving or using machinery
  • Change from BAN to rINN
  • Change due to user-testing of patient information
  • Changes to therapeutic indications
Updated on 21/05/2007 and displayed until 29/07/2009
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to side-effects
  • Change of contra-indications
  • Change to warnings or special precautions for use
Updated on 19/03/2007 and displayed until 21/05/2007
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to name of manufacturer
  • Change to manufacturer contact details
  • Change of inactive ingredient
  • Change to appearance of the medicine
Updated on 21/09/2006 and displayed until 19/03/2007
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to appearance of the medicine
  • Change to date of revision
Date of revision of text on the SPC:   10/2006
Legal Category:   POM
Black Triangle (CHM):   NO

Free-text change information supplied by the pharmaceutical company
Section 6.1:List of excipient(s)
Capsule shell colour updated
Section 10: Date of Revision of the Text
October 2005
Updated on 22/03/2006 and displayed until 21/09/2006
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Change to appearance of the medicine
  • Change of manufacturer
  • Change to date of revision
Updated on 29/11/2002 and displayed until 22/03/2006
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Update to PIL
Updated on 24/08/2001 and displayed until 29/11/2002
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • Update to PIL
Updated on 08/08/2000 and displayed until 24/08/2001
Reasons for adding or updating:
  • No reasons supplied

Active Ingredients/Generics

 
  piroxicam