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Reverse-Switch Of Stada’s Lemocin On The Agenda Of Germany's Switch Committee

 
• By David Ridley

Germany's Expert Committee for Prescription will consider the reverse-switch of tyrothricin – a key ingredient in Stada's recently-acquired Lemocin throat lozenge – to presciption-only status and the Rx-to-OTC switch of soluble fluoride tablets for the oral treatment of osteoporosis.

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Head-scratchers seem to be the order of the day at the German switch committee’s next meeting on 26 January 2021.

Firstly, Germany’s Expert Committee for Prescription – an independent body that advises the country’s Ministry of Health, the BMG, on...

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