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Letter: Ask a pharmacist

Published 10 October 2012

From Sheila Handley

There is nothing odd about the phrase “for extemporaneous use only” on a packet of potassium citrate, as mentioned in Feedback (8 September).

It’s just pharmaceutical talk for an ingredient used to prepare a “one-off” medicine for a particular patient or group of patients because it is not available as a licensed preparation in the form required.

Lichfield, Staffordshire, UK

Issue no. 2886 published 13 October 2012

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