Perrigo reports 4% Q2 sales growth for OTC drugs in the Americas region was offset by nearly 15% drop in infant formula sale. Total consumer sales in the Americas slipped 2.5% to $582m, but CEO Murray Kessler says brighter days are ahead on benefits from Ranir oral care acquisition.

GSK's proposed usage for mouth spray product – reducing withdrawal symptoms, including nicotine craving – differs little from the first NRT product approved in US in 1984. Additional suggested label instructions primarily focus on stating NRTs can be used to reduce smoking or gradually stop tobacco use as opposed to quitting within a specified amount of time.

Marina Karp joins CHPA as its first director of health policy; UFC welterweight Colby Covington signs on with Cannafornia CBD; "body activist" Ashley Graham is an Olly Nutrition brand ambassador; and Pink's husband, Carey Hart, inspires Next Green Wave's CBD line.

Perrigo reports 4% Q2 sales growth for OTC drugs in the Americas region was offset by nearly 15% drop in infant formula sale. Total consumer sales in the Americas slipped 2.5% to $582m, but CEO Murray Kessler says brighter days are ahead on benefits from Ranir oral care acquisition.

Bayer's Iberogast is in the spotlight in Germany. According to media reports, a German court is investigating a 2018 Iberogast-related death as a possible case of manslaughter and bodily harm caused by negligence. Bayer is standing behind its product, stating that the death was “most probably” due to an “idiosyncratic reaction.”  

"Balancing the need to address the existing public health crisis among today’s youth ... and the need to avoid creating an additional public health crisis if e-cigarette availability dropped so precipitously as to push users to combusted tobacco products," Judge Paul Grimm sets a May 2020 PMTA deadline for vaping products, noting the industry’s "lack of effort to obtain approval without an imminent deadline."