New Zealand to ban cough and cold meds for young children

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23 Oct 2009
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Vibha Sharma @ScripRegVibha vibha.sharma@informa.com

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New Zealand’s drug regulatory agency, Medsafe, has accepted an expert committee’s recommendation that children under the age of six should not be given oral cough and cold medicines, with few exceptions¹. While there is limited evidence that these medicines work in this age group, there have been reports of side effects.

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