meth laws
Last March, Sally Harpold bought a box of Zyrtec-D
cold medicine for her husband, then a few days later bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her grown daughter. That
put her over the limit for how much pseudoephedrine-laced cold meds you can buy in a week in her small Indiana town, so she was arrested along with 16 other potential meth makers earlier this month.
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fda
It seems that
children's cold medicines that have been in use for decades may not have gotten rigorous FDA review when they were first introduced. Subsequently, the popularity of the various brands may have made the FDA reluctant to review their safety and effectiveness. From the NYT:
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Consumerist
