In Brief: Cold-Eeze cold relief lozenges

Cold-Eeze cold relief lozenges: Quigley Corp. says it will complete initial expansion of its Doylestown, Penn. manufacturing facility by mid-December to fulfill a $3.5 mil. backlog of purchase orders for the homeopathic cold product. "New purchase orders...have reached $500,000 per week," Quigley says Dec. 3, and the newly expanded facility will allow the firm to maintain production of "over $1 mil. of product per week." Further expansions are already planned. Cold-Eeze was studied by the Cleveland Clinic and found to "significantly shorten" the duration of cold symptoms in 100 test subjects ("The Tan Sheet" July 15, p. 19). The product is sold through national discount food and drug chains such as Walgreen's and Kmart...