CVS Pulls Decongestants As FDA Says They Don’t Work

October 21, 2023 Business, Medicine

The Insider reports:

CVS this week said it is pulling many popular decongestants from its shelves after advisors to the Food and Drug Administration said the active ingredient simply does not work.

In September, an advisory panel to the FDA ruled that phenylephrine, when taken orally, is no better than a placebo despite being on the market for more than half a century. The ingredient can be found in many popular over-the-counter drugs, such as Sudafed PE, accounting for $1.8 billion in sales each year

How could a drug that doesn’t work be sold for more than 50 years? Leslie Hendeles, a consultant to the FDA, told Time magazine that it is because federal regulators have in the past only examined whether over-the-counter drugs are safe — not whether they work.

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