Are PPA Medications Recalled? What are the retailers doing?
The FDA did not officially recall medications containing Phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride, and instead asked manufacturers to discontinue their marketing of these medications. Some stores such as Walgreens have already pulled all medicines containing PPA off of the shelves. Walgreens said that 75 of their 550 cough and cold medications contain PPA. The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) had previously disputed the Yale study, calling it inconclusive; their response to the recent FDA Health Advisory has been to state that each company must make their own decision. How Desperate Are We? The question that springs to mind for me, at least, is why products containing PPA are still available. I visited three stores today to see if they were still stocking PPA products; all of them had every cold and diet pill medicine in stock as far as I could tell. Pharmaceutical manufacturers will clearly be hurt by this ruling, as will some retailers no doubt. And yet, how important is this
