Pharmacy and Medications

FDA Prompts Removal of Unapproved Drugs Intended to Treat Cough, Cold, and Allergy symptoms from Market

FDA ACTION:

ATTENTION: Certain unapproved prescription medicines intended to relieve cough, cold, and allergy symptoms were removed from the US market on March 2, 2011 due to concerns about safety, effectiveness and quality because of lack of evaluation by the FDA and improper labeling.

FDA RECOMMENDATION: If you are taking one of these products.

To determine if it is an FDA approved drug, visit the following link: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm If a product is not included here, the search results will say "Your search term did not return any results."
Patients who are currently taking an unapproved cough, cold or allergy product should contact their health care professional as soon as possible to discuss switching to another product
There are multiple approved cough, cold and allergy products on the market, taking an unapproved product is an unnecessary risk
Dispose of unused unapproved cough, cold and allergy products in the household trash by following the recommendations outlined in the Federal Drug Disposal Guidelines.

For additional information about the withdrawal of these products, please follow the link below:

Charles Skluzacek

Pharmacy Doctorate Candidate 2011

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Last Reviewed: Apr 12, 2011

David Baker, PharmD, DABAT
Formerly, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University