{"id":8263,"date":"2023-09-18T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2023-09-18T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:08:51","slug":"ineffective-drug-ingredient-phenylephrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/ineffective-drug-ingredient-phenylephrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensacola law firm files class action lawsuit over ineffective drug ingredient Phenylephrine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Pensacola law firm is the first to file a national class action lawsuit the same week the Federal Drug Administration determined a decongestant ingredient in hundreds of over-the-counter medicine is ineffective.<\/p>\n
Phenylephrine is in medicines like Sudafed, Vicks Sinex Severe, Nyquil and Benadryl. An FDA panel of experts looked at new data from recent studies showing many nasal decongestants are useless.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese newer studies using better technology, better design have found that phenylephrine or decongestents containing phenylephrine are no more effective than the placebo and so a placebo is just a sugar pill, right, it\u2019s a pill that provides no benefit,\u201d attorney Dan Thornburgh<\/a> said.<\/p>\n Pensacola Law Firm, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz<\/a>, filed a class action against Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble and more to come.<\/p>\n \u201cWe filed the first national class action against a number of these companies who are making billions of dollars over a drug that was worthless,\u201d Thornburgh<\/a> said.<\/p>\n With this action, the attorneys also want to send a strong message to all corporations.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t be so greedy that you forget about taking care of your customer,\u201d Thornburgh said. \u201cIt\u2019s a really important tool to check corporations and make sure corporations don\u2019t get away with selling snake oil.\u201d<\/p>\n If there\u2019s a settlement or a verdict against the companies, consumers would have the chance to file a claim and recoup their money.<\/p>\n In the interest of fairness, WKRG News 5 reached out to Johnson & Johnson and Proctor & Gamble to get a comment for this story, but we\u2019re still waiting on a response.<\/p>\n