Eno (drug)

Eno is the most global of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) products. The fast-acting effervescent fruit salts, used as an antacid and reliever of bloatedness, was invented in the 1850s by James Crossley Eno (1827-1915). It has sales of nearly £30 million; its major markets are Spain, India, Brazil, South Africa, Malaysia and Thailand. It is frequently used as a substitute for baking powder.

History

In the summer, 2010, GSK made the decision to withdraw Eno from the UK market. At the beginning of the year, they withdrew the unique UK 218g jar, replacing it with a European/USA 150g jar, increasing its price by 18%. It can still be found in sachets of 5g, sold in boxes of ten, however stocks are not being replaced. Most existing UK stock has an expiry date of May 2013.

This leaves a major gap in the UK market as its primary competitor, Andrews, also a registered trade mark of GlaxoSmithKline, contains 2.1g of sucrose per 5ml measure, making it unsuitable for diabetics. They are, however readily available at Indian grocery stores in the US and UK. Other effervescent alternatives, such as Resolve, contain paracetamol - unnecessary if you have a simple stomach upset. Even alternatives type 'fruit salts' from Boots and Superdrug contain sucrose, the result being a sweet sugary taste in contrast to the historically advertised Eno "refreshing zing". They are not suitable for diabetics.

Drug

A drug is any substance other than food, that when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin or dissolved under the tongue causes a physiological change in the body.

In pharmacology, a pharmaceutical drug or medicine, is a chemical substance used to treat, cure, prevent, diagnose a disease or promote well-being. Traditionally drugs were obtained through extraction from medicinal plants, but more recently also by organic synthesis. Pharmaceutical drugs may be used for a limited duration, or on a regular basis for chronic disorders.

Pharmaceutical drugs are often classified into drug classes—groups of related drugs that have similar chemical structures, the same mechanism of action (binding to the same biological target), a related mode of action, and that are used to treat the same disease. The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC), the most widely used drug classification system, assigns drugs a unique ATC code, which is an alphanumeric code that assigns it to specific drug classes within the ATC system. Another major classification system is the Biopharmaceutics Classification System. This classifies drugs according to their solubility and permeability or absorption properties.

Mourvèdre

Mourvèdre (also known as Mataró or Monastrell) is a red wine grape variety that is grown in many regions around the world including the Rhône and Provence regions of France, the Valencia and Jumilla denominación de origens of Spain, California and Washington State and the Australian regions of South Australia and New South Wales. In addition to making red varietal wines, Mourvèdre is a prominent component in "GSM" (Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvedre) blends. The variety is also used to make rosé and port-style fortified wines.

Mourvèdre tends to produce tannic wines that can be high in alcohol. The style of wine produced from the grapes varies greatly according to where it is produced, but according to wine expert Jancis Robinson Mourvèdre wines often have wild game and/or earthy notes to them, with soft red fruit flavors. According to wine expert Oz Clarke, young Mourvèdre can come across as faulted due to the reductive, sulfur notes and "farmyard-y" flavors that some wines can exhibit before those flavors mellow with age.

Drug (disambiguation)

A drug is any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things. Drugs can be used to treat illness, relieve a symptom or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

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Eno (company)

Eno is a Chinese clothing and accessories company based in Shanghai, founded in 2006.

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Eno (film)

Eno is a 1973 documentary short film. Its subject is musician Brian Eno, shortly after his departure from Roxy Music.

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