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CVS is removing some over-the-counter allergy and cold medicines from their shelves one month after an independent advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration declared that phenylephrine, a
An FDA Advisory Committee ruled last month that oral phenylephrine is not effective in easing congestion.
The company will continue to sell other “oral cough and cold products” in order to “meet consumer needs,” the statement continued.
Products such as Dayquil, Mucinex, Sudafed PE, Allegra and Benadryl have an active ingredient a government panel deemed "ineffective."
CVS Health plans to pull cold medications that contain phenylephrine from its store shelves after federal regulators determined recently that the decongestant doesn't work.