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A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was an article a while back about pseudoephedrine manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry. Almost all of the pseudoephedrine was made by a german company and the US pharmaceutical companies lobbied and got it made illegal and switched to producing phenephelprine in China.