Pretoria, 17 January 2025 – The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has recommended that the product information of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA)-containing products be amended by updating the safety warnings to include the potential risk of meningioma. MPA is a synthetic oral and injectable form...
Please note that SAHPRA Head Office, including Cape Town and Durban Regional Offices will be unavilable today, 29 November 2024 due to the organisation's Annual General Meeting. If you require assistance, please use applicable contacts from Key Contacts: https://www.sahpra.org.za/key-contacts/ ...
SAHPRA offices will be closed for the festive season from 12:00 on Tuesday, 24 December 2024 and will re-open on Monday, 06 January 2025. Please note: Dates, placed within brackets for various email addresses, will guide stakeholders to the timeframes that emails will be processed. Dates, placed within...
Pretoria, 21 November 2024 – The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is aware of a quality issue in a batch of YAZ Plus contraceptives (Batch No. WEW96J distributed on 09 and 24 November 2023) which has resulted in the incorrect arrangement of tablets...
Pretoria, 08 November 2024 –The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is concerned about the proliferation of falsified, compounded and substandard Glucagon-like Peptide (GLP-1)-containing products being made available to the public via websites, social media platforms and other informal channels. These pose a health...
Pretoria, 07 November 2024 – The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) encourages members of the public to always report any suspected side effects they may experience from taking medicines, vaccines and/or using medical devices, to help make medicines safer for everyone. While humanity...
Pretoria, South Africa and Canberra, Australia, 07 October 2024 –The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will strengthen collaboration between the two health product regulators. The MoU builds on the...
Pretoria, 16 September 2024 –The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is proud to announce that it has received its first clean audit outcome from the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) for the 2023/2024 financial year, following on a record of consistent unqualified audit...
Pretoria, 22 July 2024 –The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is disappointed with the unfounded fallacies and misrepresentation in circulation and churned out by some media organisations without verification, in what presents as a misinformation campaign devoid of any intent to rely on...
The South African Association of Pharmacists in Industry (SAAPI) held its 2024 conference at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) International Convention Centre on 5-7 June 2024 under the theme “Engage and empower: Pushing the frontiers of the Pharma Industry”. South African Health Products...
