Delivery Device Developer Pushes FDA For Better Weight-Based Dosing For Children’s Acetaminophen

Michael Creaturo’s petition isn’t the first suggestion made to FDA and industry that there’s room for improvement in labeling for children’s doses of some OTC formulations. Creaturo's petition comes after he received a US patent in December 2022 for an “integrated container and dosing device for liquid medication delivery.”

The author of a citizen petition recommending changing or removing weight-based instructions for children’s doses of single-ingredient, liquid OTC acetaminophen available in the US also proposes a solution to the problem the petition details, his patented device.

The petition Michael Creaturo, managing director of Sarasota, FL, firm Parenteral Technologies LLC, submitted to the Food and Drug...