I once bought liquid acetaminophen made overseas at a Walmart that was confusingly labeled. It came with a cup to measure it with. There was a clear mark for the adult dose but no clear mark for a child's dose, yet the bottle had instructions for the amount to give children. It was a Walmart in a town made up of many hispanics.
It really bothered me that the child's dosage was confusing and that non English speakers, or anyone for that matter, would easily have just looked at the mark on the cup for adults and just give it to their children.
So I researched who to report this to and found an organization, I think it was US gov't, maybe FDA. It was a while ago.
I wonder how much testing there is on overseas pharmaceutical ingredients coming into this country. There can be chemicals made as by-products in drugs during the manufacturing process that can be harmful. Acetaminophen manufacturing can have one or two by-products, if I remember correctly, (I had a little knowledge about them at one time many years ago). One in particular had an allowance in the USP of only in the part per billion range. Usually these by-products are allowed in the pp million range. I take a lot of acetaminophen, so it worries my a little.
Here is the monograph for Tylenol if anyone is interested.
https://www.drugs.com/monograph/acetaminophen.html
I once bought liquid acetaminophen made overseas at a Walmart that was confusingly labeled. It came with a cup to measure it with. There was a clear mark for the adult dose but no clear mark for a child's dose, yet the bottle had instructions for the amount to give children. It was a Walmart in a town made up of many hispanics.
It really bothered me that the child's dosage was confusing and that non English speakers, or anyone for that matter, would easily have just looked at the mark on the cup for adults and just give it to their children.
So I researched who to report this to and found an organization, I think it was US gov't, maybe FDA. It was a while ago.
I wonder how much testing there is on overseas pharmaceutical ingredients coming into this country. There can be chemicals made as by-products in drugs during the manufacturing process that can be harmful. Acetaminophen manufacturing can have one or two by-products, if I remember correctly, (I had a little knowledge about them at one time many years ago). One in particular had an allowance in the USP of only in the part per billion range. Usually these by-products are allowed in the pp million range. I take a lot of acetaminophen, so it worries my a little.
Taking a lot of acetaminophen is not good for your liver. Hope you can cut back.
Thanks, I'm going to try to.