Petros Pharma Introduces AI As ACNU Option In Research For OTC Switch Of Stendra ED Drug

Petros is first to introduce an OTC switch labeling tool which could be the next obvious step hiding in plain sight – AI, which wasn’t noted in FDA’s ACNU proposal and hasn’t previously been linked to a switch.

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The Food and Drug Administration’s “additional conditions of nonprescription use” proposed rule for making more drug ingredients available OTC in the US portends introducing additional labeling obviously different from current options allowed by the agency.

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