New prudent use rules that would make some commonly used medicines prescription-only should be restricted to antibiotics, the AESGP tells the European Commission in its feedback to the proposed revision of the region's pharmaceutical legislation.
Prescription-only medicine status should be reserved for antibiotics with a proven antimicrobial resistance risk (AMR), rather than for all “microbials,” including OTC topical antifungals and antivirals, says the Association of the European Self-Care Industry, AESGP.
Including self-care products – for which AMR risk has “not been sufficiently investigated to draw final conclusions” – within the...
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In this episode of the Over the Counter podcast, HBW Insight speaks to Kerry's RDA senior manager of immune and joint health, Sonja Nodland, about the opportunity for innovation that postbiotics represent for the consumer health industry.
Proposal to have panelists rate the strength of efficacy and safety evidence on a numeric scale also draws support in written comments on ways to optimize the advisory committee process.
