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PAGB: AMR Issue Should Be About ‘Stewardship’ Not Making OTCs Prescription-Only

 
• By David Ridley

This Thursday (26 October) the United Nations will discuss whether OTC antimicrobial products should be restricted to prescription-only status by UN member states. In advance of this, we catch up with UK association CEO Michelle Riddalls, to learn about the PAGB’s role in crafting the global consumer healthcare industry’s response.

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Concerns about commonly used OTC antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance could be based on a simple misunderstanding, suggests UK consumer healthcare industry association CEO Michelle Riddalls.

“It’s not about OTCs at all,” insists Riddalls, speaking about a “political declaration” which will be discussed at a UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance on 26 September, which suggests that a “lack of regulation of over-the-counter use of antimicrobials” is one of the “drivers of antimicrobial resistance

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