Either the clock was ticking or the sands in the hourglass were dwindling before the recent publication of a US regulation to allow sales of OTC drugs using digital labeling for consumers’ self-selection of “additional conditions for nonprescription use” more than a decade after the Food and Drug Administration suggested the change.
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