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Pharmacists caught by cough meds reclassification

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Pharmacy Today

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Some supermarkets were still selling cough mixtures containing dextromethorphan following the reclassification to pharmacy-only

Jonathan Chilton-Towle of Pharmacy Today finds pharmacists and the wider public were caught out when a medicines reclassification decision made last year was gazetted one Monday morning in February

The discovery led to a mad scramble to get the stock off the shelves, and staff were still trying to find space behind the counter that afternoon for