FDA Clarifies No Decision Made On Phenylephrine, Still Safe

FDA on Thursday (Sept. 14) laid out the multi-step process it would use to remove oral phenylephrine from the market if it ultimately agrees with its advisers that the product doesn’t work, but it also stressed the drug is still safe and is sometimes combined with other products that work. If FDA finds oral phenylephrine isn’t effective, a proposed order to remove the drug from the monograph would be issued and the public would then be able to comment on...