Committee on Dental and Surgical

Homoeopathic Products. Earlier advisory committees, the Committee on the Review of Medicines, the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials, the Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medicinal Products, and the Safety and Efficacy sub-committee, have been dis-established as circumstances have changed. 

The Licensing Authority is advised by expert committees, appointed by ministers, as advised by the Medicines Commission under Section 4 of the Medicines Act. These advisory committees consist of independent experts, such as hospital clinicians, general practitioners, pharmacists and clinical pharmacologists, not the staff of the DoH, and are appointed by ministers on the advice of the Medicines Commission. The relevant advisory committees since 1971 have been the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM), the Committee on Review of Medicines (CRM), the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials (CDSM), the British Pharmacopoeia Commission (BPC) and the Veterinary Products Committee, which is administered through the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF). 

In 1974, the Health Ministers consulted the UK Medicines Commission on a proposal to set up a committee under section 4 to advise the LA on applications for product licences for dental and other surgical materials. 

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