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\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen outside of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in White Oak, Maryland, U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS\/Andrew Kelly\/File Photo<\/span>
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By Jonathan Stempel<\/p>\n

(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble (NYSE:) and Walgreens are among several companies accused in lawsuits of deceiving consumers about cold medicines containing an ingredient that a unanimous U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel declared ineffective.<\/p>\n

Proposed class actions were filed on Wednesday and Thursday, after the panel reviewed several studies and concluded this week that the ingredient phenylephrine marketed as a decongestant was essentially no better than a placebo.<\/p>\n

According to an agency presentation, about 242 million products with phenylephrine were sold in the United States last year, generating $1.76 billion of sales and accounting for about four-fifths of the market for oral decongestants.<\/p>\n

The first lawsuit appeared to have been filed in Pensacola, Florida, federal court.<\/p>\n

It said Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:)’s consumer health business and Procter & Gamble should have known by 2018 that their marketing claims about products with phenylephrine were “false and deceptive.”<\/p>\n

That year was when new FDA guidance for evaluating symptoms related to nasal congestion demonstrated that earlier data about phenylephrine’s effectiveness could no longer be relied upon, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

The plaintiff Steve Audelo, a Florida resident, said he bought Johnson & Johnson’s Sudafed PE and Benadryl Allergy Plus, and Procter & Gamble’s Vicks NyQuil, based on the companies’ claims that the products worked.<\/p>\n

Similar lawsuits were filed on Thursday against GSK, which makes TheraFlu; Reckitt Benckiser <\/span><\/span> (LON:), which makes Mucinex Sinus Max, and Walgreens, which produces generic decongestants.<\/p>\n

Johnson & Johnson’s consumer business is known as Kenvue (NYSE:) after a May 3 initial public offering. It also makes Tylenol Cold & Flu, whose ingredients include phenylephrine. Kenvue is also a defendant in one of the lawsuits.<\/p>\n

The defendant companies did not immediately respond on Thursday to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

The FDA generally follows but does not always adopt its advisory panels’ recommendations.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the agency said it would seek public comment on whether products with phenylephrine should be pulled from store shelves.<\/p>\n

The Florida case is Audelo v Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, No. 23-24250.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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