Nordic Countries Join Race To Withdraw OTC Ranitidine

OTC presentations of ranitidine have been pulled from shelves in Denmark, Finland and Norway after the European Medicines Agency launched a review into the drug over safety fears.

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Denmark, Finland and Norway are the latest European countries to withdraw from sale certain OTC ranitidine-based drugs following a worldwide alert over the ingredient’s safety.

National regulators in the three Nordic countries have withdrawn from sale all OTC and prescription versions of ranitidine in response...

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