Stada's Lemocin cough lozenges survive a German reverse-switch threat, as does first generation anti-histamine dimenhydrinate, pointing to possible good news for the company's other major German OTC brand, Hoggar Night (doxylamine), which is also having its OTC status re-examined by the country's Expert Committee on Prescription.

Ahead of an incoming German reverse-switch ruling, Stada publishes reslts of a study showing no evidence of increased risk of falling in connection with the use of antihistamine-based sleeping pills such as the company’s Hoggar Night brand. 

Promethazine has been reverse-switched from OTC to prescription status in France, with rising abuse of the drug in the so-called Purple Drank cocktail one of the motivating factors for the move by the country's health ministry.