NICE CLASSIFICATION - 12 Edition, Version 2025

Class 5 includes mainly pharmaceuticals and other preparations for medical or veterinary purposes.

This Class includes, in particular:

- sanitary preparations for personal hygiene, other than toiletries;

- diapers for babies and for incontinence;

- deodorants, other than for human beings or for animals;

- medicated shampoos, soaps, lotions and dentifrices;

- dietary supplements intended to supplement a normal diet or to have health benefits;

- meal replacements and dietetic food and beverages adapted for medical or veterinary use.

This Class does not include, in particular:

- ingredients for use in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, for example, vitamins, preservatives and antioxidants (Cl. 1);

- sanitary preparations being non-medicated toiletries (Cl. 3);

- deodorants for human beings or for animals (Cl. 3);

- support bandages, orthopaedic bandages (Cl. 10);

- meal replacements and dietetic food and beverages not specified as being for medical or veterinary use, which should be classified in the appropriate food or beverage classes, for example, low-fat potato crisps (Cl. 29), high-protein cereal bars

(Cl. 30), isotonic beverages (Cl. 32).