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But the pool may be about to get smaller. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans to ban products containing phenylephrine, an ingredient found in many over-the-counter ...

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now proposed an order to remove oral phenylephrine from every single cold, cough, allergy, bronchodilator, and anti-asthmatic drug product available today ...

Phenylephrine is included in many cold and flu products, but a scientific panel last year found that it doesn't really do its job at "unstuffing" when taken by mouth. Jessica is a writer on the ...

Specifically, the FDA issued a proposed order to remove oral phenylephrine from the list of drugs that drugmakers can include in over-the-counter products—also known as the OTC monograph.

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said oral phenylephrine is not an effective nasal decongestant. Phenylephrine is the main decongestant ingredient in soluble and tablet-form ...

Hisham Al-Obaidi, a pharmacy lecturer at the University of Reading and an ambulance service advanced pharmacist practitioner, said phenylephrine hydrochloride had minimal activity when taken orally.

The US Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed removing oral phenylephrine - widely used in cold and cough syrups - as an active ingredient in over-the-counter drugs for nasal congestion.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed removing oral phenylephrine, widely used in cold and cough syrups, as an active ingredient in over-the-counter drugs for nasal congestion ...