The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ingredients.
Does anyone know if phenylephrine is otherwise harmless? If it’s essentially harmless, and assuming all these various products have other ingredients that remain effective, then it seems to me that the easiest thing for the companies to do is to move phenylephrine from the “active ingredients” section to the “inactive ingredients” section.
Just put pseudoephedrine back over the counter again. Christ.
But someone might make a tiny amount of meth. Therefore everyone must suffer.
therefore everyone must suffer
You do realize you can walk right up to that counter, point to the good stuff, and they’ll just give it to you right?
They didn’t just put it behind the counter to be pretty back there.
