General Sales List

Valerian root (from Valeriana officinalis L.) has traditional use in symptomatic treatment of neurotonic conditions of adults and children, particularly in cases of minor sleep disturbances Commission E has approved valerian for restlessness and nervous disturbances of sleep Valerian is included in the General Sale List of the Medicines Control Agency and permitted in traditional herbal remedies as a sedative and to promote natural sleep... 

Let doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists know that you are taking this medicine. It may affect their choice of treatment. Note that ibuprofen is a general sale list medicine and so can be freely purchased. This can interact with ciclosporin and so should generally be avoided without further medical advice. 

Unlike the United States, many countries further divide non-prescription medications into different subclasses. Table 8 contains information regarding OTC products around the world. For example, in the United Kingdom, non-prescription medications known as P medicines may only be sold in registered pharmacies under the supervision of a registered pharmacist while other non-prescription medications, known as the general sale list medicines, may be sold at all other retail outlets. There has been a push in recent years to consider a third class of medications sold only under the supervision of the pharmacist in the United States. Many consumers and healthcare providers favor this move with more and more products available as OTCs. However, limiting the access to these products, especially in rural areas, has kept this issue still under debate. 

Medicines Order. The Medicines (General Sale List) Order. The Stationery Office Ltd. London, 1997. 

A medicinal product on the general sale list is a product that can be sold or supplied over-the-counter at any retail outlet. Examples include paracetamol preparations, antacids, aspirin. GSL products are considered to be relatively safe and can be freely purchased by the public. 

Packaging materieils—drcift or printer s artwork copies of the product s inner label, outer carton, package insert (PI) (for prescription-only products) or patient information leaflet (PIL) (for pharmacy-only and general sales list products). 

Forensic classification (please tick the appropriate box) a) In country of manufacture Prescription Only (POM) Pharmacy Only Medicine (P) General Sale List Medicine (GSL) C ... 

OEP is regulated as a dietary supplement in the United States. It is approved in Canada as an over-the-counter product for use in EFA-deficiency conditions and as a dietary supplement to increase EFA intake. In the United Kingdom, it is on the General Sales List. In Germany, OEP is approved for use as food and is approved there in the treatment and symptomatic relief of atopic eczema. In Sweden, OEP is classified as a natural product. OEP has a Class 1 Safety Rating with the American Herbal Product Association (1,2,7). 

The Medicines Act 1968 defines three classes of medicinal products for human use. These are general sale list (GSL) medicines, pharmacy (P) medicines and prescription-only medicines (POM). 

General sale list (GSL) medicines (see Section 1.3.1) are medicines that can be purchased from a wide range of shops, general stores, supermarkets, newsagents, petrol stations, etc. Products classified as GSL are considered to be reasonably safe and therefore able to be sold without the supervision of a pharmacist. 

General sale list medicines are those for which all the active ingredients are listed in the Medicines (Products Other than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sales List) Order 1984. 

A pharmacy medicine is the definition given to medicinal products not included on the Prescription Only Medicines Order or the General Sale List or to products that are supplied outside the GSL package limit or maximum dosage limit. A few medicines are called pharmacy only (PO) medicines these include medicines that would normally be included on the GSL but where the manufacturer has limited the supply of the medicines to pharmacies only (see Section 1.3.1). Examples include ... 

Registered optometrists are allowed to sell or supply all medicinal products on a general sale list (GSL) and all pharmacy-only medicines (P) providing that it is in the course of their professional practice. 

New products, when first licensed, are usually approved as prescription only medicine (POM). With increasing experience in the use of the medicine, it might seem likely that a medication is safe for use with pharmacy supervision only then, the NCA may remove the prescription requirements and allow sale or supply from a pharmacy without prescription, that is the medicinal product is reclassified as Pharmacy (P). If further experience shows that access to professional advice is not required for safe use of the medicine, it may finally be reclassified as general sales list (GSL) to allow... 

The Medicines (Products other than Veterinary Drugs) (General Sale List), Order 1984 (the GSL Order). 

A young woman is referred to you by your medicines counter assistant, as she has picked up a General Sales List alkalinising treatment for cystitis but she tells your assistant she has not used such a product before. The client says that she thinks she has cystitis, but when you ask her if she has had cystitis before she says no, but she has talked about her symptoms to a friend who has had cystitis, and her friend thinks that this is what it is. In response to your questions, the symptoms she describes are urine not being passed more frequently than normal, but dark with an unpleasant smell pain about halfway up her back on both sides, and she has been feeling feverish since she woke up this morning. 

United Kingdom approved for the general sales list. 

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