Medsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, Ministry of Health)
Is Elamipretide (SS-31) legal in New Zealand?
Not approvedElamipretide is classed as a prescription medicine but has no Medsafe consent or data sheet
Not approved as a medicine here.
Elamipretide appears by name in the Medsafe classification database as a prescription medicine. That is a classification only: Medsafe's index of data sheets for consented medicines, revised 29 September 2026, lists no elamipretide product. Without ministerial consent it cannot lawfully be sold, supplied or advertised, apart from narrow exemptions such as a prescriber obtaining an unapproved medicine for a named patient. Medsafe's product search showed no elamipretide product on 29 September 2026.
Last verified 2026-09-29 · how we verify
Elamipretide (SS-31) elsewhere
Sources (5)
- 01Medicines Classification Database (Schedule 1, Medicines Regulations 1984)Medsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority) · 2026-09-25 · accessed 2026-09-29
- 02Data sheets index (medicines with consent to be distributed in New Zealand)Medsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority) · 2026-09-29 · accessed 2026-09-29
- 03Medicines Act 1981 (version as at 10 July 2026)New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office · 2026-07-10 · accessed 2026-09-29
- 04Use of Unapproved Medicines and Use of approved Medicines for an unapproved purposeMedsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority) · 2025-12-12 · accessed 2026-09-29
- 05Product/Application Search (product and application records searched by ingredient on 29 September 2026)Medsafe (New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority) · 2026-07-07 · accessed 2026-09-29