Asthma: Medical Equipment

(asked on 17th July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2025 to Question 65186 on Asthma: Medical Equipment, which pharmaceutical companies are registered as marketing authorisation holders for (a) dry powder inhalers containing (i) salbutamol and (ii) terbutaline and (b) pressurised metered dose inhalers containing salbutamol.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 23rd July 2025

The following table shows the four market authorisation holders (MAH) for dry power inhalers (DPIs) containing salbutamol and terbutaline, along with the three MAHs for pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs):

Pharmaceutical company

Inhaler type

Medicine

Glaxo Wellcome UK Ltd

DPI

Salbutamol

Orion Corp

DPI

Salbutamol

Maylan Products Ltd

DPI

Salbutamol

Astrazeneca UK Ltd Pharmacovigilance

DPI

Terbutaline

Sandoz B.V.

pMDI

Salbutamol

Kent Pharma UK Ltd

pMDI

Salbutamol

Cipla (EU) Ltd

pMDI

Salbutamol

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