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.
  • JWBananas@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The metric was that it is no more effective than placebo. It is a very old drug and was grandfathered in from a time before modern standards.

    The FDA was told this by researchers in 2007, but they wanted mOrE dAtA.

    Edit to add: It does have more effectiveness when used nasally as opposed to orally.