Ireland· IE-PA-PA2286/006/002

Saizen 8 mg/ml solution for injection in cartridge

A somatropin product containing somatropin, registered in Ireland by Merck Serono (Ireland) Limited. The same ATC class is registered in 17 of our 19 countries.

ATC H01AC01

Checked against HPRA (Ireland) on September 28, 2026

Informational only — not a medical device.

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Where it is registered

Somatropin is registered in 17 of 19 countries.

Countries holding a registration under ATC H01AC01 (somatropin), each read from that country’s own register.

This record: Ireland, from HPRA (Ireland)
10 of them publish a price we can compare per daily dose

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Somatropin · ATC H01AC01

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Blue: a registration under this ATC code. The ringed marker is this record’s country. Markets marked price publish a price we can compare per daily dose.

The record

At a glance

HPRA (Ireland)

Active substance: Somatropin
Manufacturer: Merck Serono (Ireland) Limited
Country: Ireland (IE)
ATC code: H01AC01
ATC class: Somatropin
Defined daily dose: 2 E, P
Reimbursed: Not published by this register
Source register: HPRA (Ireland)
Last checked: September 28, 2026

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ie_pa_number
PA2286/006/002

Regulatory notes

No shortage, Orange Book or US label notes for this record.

Interactions

521 interactions on record for somatropin.

Graded by severity as the source publishes them — 4 severe. Severity grades are free for everyone; mechanism and management come with Growth.

Severity for every pair — free, no plan needed
The source, licence and sync date on every record
Mechanism and what to do for each pair — Growth plan

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Somatropin · interactions on record

521 records

4 severe
504 moderate
13 minor

Most severe, free to view

OmeprazoleA02BC01moderate
PantoprazoleA02BC02moderate
LansoprazoleA02BC03moderate
RabeprazoleA02BC04moderate

Interaction severity from DDInter 2.0 (Xiong G. et al., Nucleic Acids Res.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial use only; not covered by the Drug Database commercial licence.

Mechanism and what to do, in the interaction check

Source: DDInter 2.0 · synced 29 Sept 2026. Grades as the source publishes them.

Same medicine, other countries

Somatropin in 17 other countries

What each register calls a product with the same active substance — salts and hydrates count as the same.

All somatropin products

Authorised across Europe · EMA

The same active substance is authorised in 30 EEA countries. Names it is sold under:

Austria · Genotropin, Genotropin Miniquick
Belgium · Genotonorm, Genotonorm Miniquick
Bulgaria · Генотропин
Cyprus · Norditropin Flexpro
Czechia · Genotropin, Humatrope
Germany · Genotropin, Genotropin Miniquick
Denmark · Genotropin, Genotropin Miniquick
Estonia · Genotropin, Saizen
Spain · Genotonorm Kabipen, Genotonorm Miniquick
Finland · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro
France · Genotonorm, Genotonorm Miniquick
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) · Genotropin, Genotropin Miniquick
Greece · Genotropin, Humatrope
Croatia · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro
Hungary · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro
Iceland · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro
Italy · Genotropin, Genotropin Miniquick
Liechtenstein · Omnitrope
Lithuania · Genotropin
Luxembourg · Genotonorm, Norditropin Flexpro
Latvia · Genotropin, Saizen
Malta · Genotropin
Netherlands · Genotropin, Humatrope
Norway · Genotropin Med Konserveringsmiddel, Genotropin Uten Konserveringsmiddel
Poland · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro
Portugal · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro
Romania · Genotropin, Norditropin Simplexx
Sweden · Genotropin, Genotropin Miniquick
Slovenia · Genotropin, Humatrope
Slovakia · Genotropin, Norditropin Flexpro

Source: European Medicines Agency, Article 57 product data.

Sourced from a public register and reproduced with attribution. Drug Database is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of HPRA (Ireland). This is an informational data service and not a medical device — verify against the official source of record before any clinical decision.

For developers

The same record over the API, and the raw payload

GET /v1/drugs/d8abc113-5e14-4654-8c59-9e23b45a0fb2
GET /v1/drugs/d8abc113-5e14-4654-8c59-9e23b45a0fb2?format=fhir

Every response carries last_synced_at, so freshness is a field rather than a promise. Below is exactly what the ingestion wrote, before any presentation — the same JSON the API returns under payload.

{
  "form": "Solution for injection in cartridge",
  "routes": [
    "Subcutaneous use"
  ],
  "source": "hpra",
  "atc_all": [
    "H01AC",
    "H01AC01"
  ],
  "strength": null,
  "pa_number": "PA2286/006/002",
  "substances": [
    "Somatropin"
  ],
  "legal_basis": "Known active substance (Article 8(3) of Directive No 2001/83/EC)",
  "market_info": "Marketed",
  "authorised_at": "25/02/2011",
  "dispensing_status": "Product subject to prescription which may not be renewed (A)",
  "registration_status": "AU",
  "supply_legal_status": "Supply through pharmacies only",
  "interchangeable_code": null
}

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