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P&G discontinues manufacture and sale of Vicks Action 500 Extra

| | Mar 15, 2016, at 06:15 pm
Mumbai, Mar 15 (IBNS) In a letter to the National Stock Exchange on Tuesday, Procter and Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd (P&G) has informed that the company has discontinued manufacture and sale of its product Vicks Action 500 Extra following a notification from the Union government.
The Union government vide a Gazette Notification dated Mar 10 has prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of fixed dose combination drugs (paracetamol+phenylephrine+caffeine) with immediate effect.
 
P&G, in its letter, has said that as its product Vicks Action 500 Extra has the same fixed dose combination and comes under the notification, it has discontinued the manufacture and sale of all SKUs of the same with immediate effect.
 
The letter is dated Mar 14, 2016. 

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