Report says some cold medicine is ineffective
(CNN) – A Food and Drug Administration Committee has confirmed fake Sudafed doesn’t work at all. Back in 2006, cold medications containing pseudoephedrine were moved behind pharmacy counters because the drug could be processed into methamphetamine. But it is also an effective and long-used decongestant. Forced to find a substitute, drug companies started marketing medications containing phenylephrine instead. Now, 17…