French Experts Call For Pseudoephedrine Reverse-Switch

28 Oct 2020

Two leading, independent bodies of French scientists, doctors and pharmacists are calling for OTC drugs containing pseudoephedrine to be reverse-switched to prescription-only status over safety fears.

France’s Académie Nationale de Médecine and Académie Nationale de Pharmacie are jointly calling on the government to reverse-switch from OTC-to-prescription status the decongestant pseudoephedrine due to safety fears.

The two independent bodies composed of doctors, scientists and pharmacists have published a report – “Drug prescriptions in adults for...