Unopened: 3 years
After first opening: Three months.
None stated.
Mannitol (E421)
Glycerol (E422)
Methyl hydroxybenzoate (E218)
Ethyl hydroxybenzoate (E214)
Propyl hydroxybenzoate (E216)
Sodium dihydrogen phosphate dihydrate
Disodium hydrogen phosphate dodecahydrate
Disodium edetate
Strawberry flavour (contains phenylalanine, cherry juice concentrate and maltol)
Purified water
Folic Acid is a drug on which extensive clinical experience has been obtained. Relevant information for the prescriber is provided elsewhere in the Summary of Product Characteristics.
About 70 - 80 % of a 2 mg oral solution of folic acid is absorbed. Larger doses are probably equally well absorbed. It is distributed into plasma and extracellular fluid. In plasma, folate is bound weakly to albumin (70 %). There is a further high affinity binder for folate but this has a very low capacity and is barely detectable in normal sera. About 70 % of small doses of folate (about 1 mg) are retained and the rest excreted into the urine. With larger doses most is excreted into the urine. With a 5 mg dose of folate, urinary excretion will be complete in about five hours. There is an enterohepatic circulation of folate. The retained folate is taken into cells and reduced by dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate. Folic acid is a relatively poor substrate for folate reduction, the normal substrate being dihydrofolate.
Folic acid itself does not occur in natural materials, it is entirely a pharmacological form of the compound. Once reduced, folate has additional glutamic acid residues added, a folate pentaglutamate being the dominant intracellular analogue. These polyglutamates are the active co-enzymes.
04/05/2016
Wockhardt UK Ltd
Ash Road North
Wrexham
LL13 9UF
U.K.
Store in a refrigerator (2°C - 8°C)
Store in the original bottle and outer cardboard carton in order to protect from light.
150 ml amber soda glass (type III) bottle fitted with a 28 mm white child resistant tamper evident screw cap, with expanded polyethylene (EPE) liner, and outer cardboard carton.
PL 29831/0358
Not applicable.
09/04/2010
