The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ingredients.
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.
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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.