“If you have a stuffy nose and you take this medicine, you will still have a stuffy nose,” said a pharmacist who petitioned the FDA back in 2007 over this.
The following report is by The New York Times:
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration agreed unanimously on Tuesday that a common decongestant ingredient used in many over-the-counter cold medicines is ineffective.
The panel’s vote tees up a likely decision by the agency on whether to essentially ban the ingredient, phenylephrine, which would result in pulling hundreds of products containing it from store shelves…
