The Health in Hand Foundation is dedicated to helping consumers lead happier, healthier lives by providing information and guidance on how to safely use, store, and dispose of OTC medicines, dietary supplements, and OTC medical devices.
Know Your Dose (KYD) educates patients and consumers about the safe and effective use of acetaminophen, the most commonly used drug ingredient in the United States.
Current good manufacturing practices establish uniform standards to ensure quality throughout the manufacturing, packaging, labeling, and holding of OTC medicines and dietary supplement products.
Lawmakers should support the centralized progress made on ingredient evaluation, labeling, and packaging protections by specialized national children’s health agencies instead of allowing jurisdiction confusion that ultimately hinders healthcare advancement for all ages.
Up and Away reminds families of the importance of safe medicine storage to prevent young children from accidentally getting into medicine. It is led by the CDC and Health in Hand, in partnership with the PROTECT Initiative.
Dextromethorphan serves as a safe, effective antitussive ingredient in many critical OTC cough and cold formulations. While reasonable age restrictions may curb adolescent misuse without limiting adult access, lawmakers should refrain from unnecessary additional barriers. Targeted age controls strike the right balance between safety and availability.
While VOCs can have environmental impacts in aggregate, existing alternatives don’t always provide the consistent therapeutic results needed for OTC products relied upon by millions for. As such, any legislation aimed at further restricting pharmaceutical VOCs must carefully weigh potential unintended consequences on public health.
