Electronic Tracking Success Could End Rx-Only Pseudoephedrine In Mississippi

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says industry should ask state legislators to repeal the 2010 law that made all PSE drugs Rx-only. CHPA “might get some listeners” if it highlights how the tracking system places less of a financial burden on consumers and the health care system, he says.

The OTC industry could convince Mississippi lawmakers to allow nonprescription, behind-the-counter sales of some pseudoephedrine-containing drugs if it shows electronic sales tracking is a less burdensome way to curb purchases of the ingredient used to make methamphetamine, says former governor Haley Barbour.

At the Consumer Healthcare Products Association’s Annual Executive Conference March 10, Barbour said “it is worth it” for the industry to resubmit to state legislators an

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