• Drug Recall, Read Please, esp for Women and Children

Posted: **Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:59 am**

Edit:
Frantic warning removed, replaced with a link to the relevant Snopes article.
-DV

http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/ppa.asp

Posted: **Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:03 am**

Oh, and it looks like phenylpropanolamine may have been a DEA whack job - it could be used as a precursor to make amphetamine.

Posted: **Sun Dec 24, 2006 5:54 pm**

Didn't mean to be frantic, lol, just copied and pasted. I have two little ones, one of which gets a lot of cough medicine type stuff from her mom, figured a lot of other people might want to check their shelves.

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:46 pm**

Mercy that's an old warning... November of 2000.

You and everyone else *should* be fine, unless your giving them 6 year-old cough syrup.

Posted: **Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:11 pm**

Bigun wrote:Mercy that's an old warning... November of 2000.

You and everyone else *should* be fine, unless your giving them 6 year-old cough syrup.

It seems to be going around again this year. I've been emailed it a few times too.