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Deadlines for other inhalers to go 'green'
The most-used daily medications used to prevent asthma attacks already are CFC-free, and all albuterol inhalers the kind used to treat attacks must be by Dec. 31.
Other types of CFC-containing inhalers will be phased out later.
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed December 2009 as the deadline for seven prescription-only inhalers to either go CFC-free or quit selling. They include:
• Cromolyn and nedocromil, a separate family of drugs used to prevent wheezing, often in connection with allergy exposure.
• Combivent, a combination of albuterol and ipratropium commonly used by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD.
• Two additional quick-acting alternatives to albuterol, metaproterenol and pirbuterol.
• And two corticosteroids, inflammation-reducing drugs, called flunisolide and triamcinolone.
While a final decision is pending, the FDA says that deadline would give sufficient time to reformulate and that there are good alternatives for each category if the manufacturer chose not to.
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