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What exactly did the panel recommend? The FDA advisory panel, made up of scientists, doctors and consumer representatives, voted to make four major changes in the way acetaminophen is dispensed and packaged. First, it voted 21 to 6 in favor of lowering the maximum daily dose of nonprescription acetaminophen for adults, which is currently set at 4,000 mg; the panel did not specify a new maximum dosage. Second, the committee voted 24 to 13 to reduce the maximum single adult daily dose to 650 mg from the current maximum of 1,000 mg, or the equivalent of two tablets...
...separate vote, the panel recommended 36 to 1 that if acetaminophen-containing prescription drugs stay on the market, they should carry a black-box warning, the most serious safety label for prescription medications...
...panel's recommendations were geared toward protecting consumers from potential liver damage due to unintentional overdose from the drug. According to the FDA, acetaminophen remains the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., despite repeated government warnings. However, the majority of acetaminophen-related deaths are due to prescription drugs, not over-the-counter medications. FDA data indicate that overdoses of nonprescription cough and cold products, like NyQuil and Theraflu, occur infrequently, when patients combine these medications with other acetaminophen products, like Tylenol, and unknowingly increase their exposure to the drug. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...panel recommend banning the painkillers Vicodin and Percocet? It's unclear. The wording of the question on which the members were asked to vote ("Do you recommend eliminating prescription acetaminophen combination products?") can be interpreted in two ways. A yes vote could indicate elimination of the product altogether, but it could also indicate elimination only of the pairing of acetaminophen and a narcotic (like hydrocodone or oxycodone), the other primary pain-relieving ingredient contained in Vicodin and Percocet. "The question did not specify, so conceivably panel members could have had different interpretations," says Ruth Day, director of the medical cognition...
...Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended on June 30 that the maximum over-the-counter dose of the popular pain reliever acetaminophen be lowered and that the current maximum single dose of the drug be available by prescription only...