There was no need to ban CFC inhalers. Their emissions were minimal. Banning them has no effect on skin cancer. I disagree that they waited until a suitable replacement was developed. The new inhalers don't work as well.
Saying "Pharma" profits so it's not the government is a smokescreen. It was Clinton who took away the exemption, thus CFC inhalers were banned.
It didn't work. I have had pre-cancerous skin growths removed from my skin, right and left. Thus the plight of all of us runners and cyclists, not to mention construction workers and farmers, who spend many hours out doors. I wouldn't consider that it was an alleged hole in the ozone layer, I would say it was spending way too much time in the sun. My father warned me about it when I used to lay out in the sun sunbathing, and my dad was born in 1907. Back then nobody ever heard of the ozone layer, much less, any holes in it, and I doubt there are any holes in it now, either.
It didn't work. I have had pre-cancerous skin growths removed from my skin, right and left. Thus the plight of all of us runners and cyclists, not to mention construction workers and farmers, who spend many hours out doors. I wouldn't consider that it was an alleged hole in the ozone layer, I would say it was spending way too much time in the sun. My father warned me about it when I used to lay out in the sun sunbathing, and my dad was born in 1907. Back then nobody ever heard of the ozone layer, much less, any holes in it, and I doubt there are any holes in it now, either.
Primatine Mist is the only OTC inhaler. It is also the only one that uses epinephrine as the active ingredient. I've been depending on this stuff for 30 years. It's saved my life more than a few times. And abuterol doesn't work for me either.Thanks for pointing that out. I only know of Primatine Mist, though there may be other over the counter inhalers. I was long ago prescribed Albuterol until I informed my doctor that Albuterol was no longer working.
Please tell me this is just hyperbole and not really the EPA's position.
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
We couldn't make this other type of inhalers available over the counter? I thought this administrations position was in making health care more affordable.
Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns | The Weekly Standard
ding ding ding.....So, it sounds to me like a payoff for campaign contributions.
300-500 million people requiring them and the emissions were "minimal"? And somehow it appears that Clinton was in office in 1987!
hint google "Montreal protocol"
And back in 2008 it was thought that an epinephrine inhaler using a non-CFC propellant could be developed before 2012. But they've run into problems. That turned out not to be the case and now it is not expected to be on the market by then.It was the Bush administration who signed off on it in 2008.
This has already been discussed in this thread but asthma medications were exempt from the ban. It was Clinton who removed the exemption.
However, Primatene Mist will no longer be available by year’s end because no CFC-containing epinephrine inhalers can be made or sold after Dec. 31, 2011, to comply with obligations made under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. This is an international agreement signed by the United States, in which countries agreed to phase-out substances that deplete the ozone layer, including CFCs, after certain dates.
“If you rely on an over-the-counter inhaler to relieve your asthma symptoms, it is important that you contact a health care professional to talk about switching to a different medicine to treat your asthma,” said Badrul Chowdhury, M.D., director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Rheumatology Products in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The FDA began public discussions about the use of CFCs in epinephrine inhalers in January 2006. The FDA finalized the phase-out date for using CFCs in these inhalers and notified the public in November 2008. Many manufacturers have changed their inhalers to replace CFCs with an environmentally-friendly propellant called hydrofluoroalkane (HFA). There is currently no HFA version of epinephrine inhalers.
And back in 2008 it was thought that an epinephrine inhaler using a non-CFC propellant could be developed before 2012. But they've run into problems. That turned out not to be the case and now it is not expected to be on the market by then.
All it would take is a stroke of the pen by Obama to reverse the decision via executive order. Instead he is simply risking the lives of millions of Americans. So you can shove your idiotic blame Bush BS where the sun don't shine, Bush isn't president anymore. Obama is president and it is 100% his decision to make.
300-500 million people requiring them and the emissions were "minimal"? And somehow it appears that Clinton was in office in 1987!
hint google "Montreal protocol"
If the ingredients inside the inhaler are being inhaled directly into the lungs, how does it harm the environment?
The hyperbole can be found in your posts, since ensuing posts have shown that:Please tell me this is just hyperbole and not really the EPA's position.
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
We couldn't make this other type of inhalers available over the counter? I thought this administrations position was in making health care more affordable.
Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns | The Weekly Standard
And back in 2008 it was thought that an epinephrine inhaler using a non-CFC propellant could be developed before 2012. But they've run into problems. That turned out not to be the case and now it is not expected to be on the market by then.
All it would take is a stroke of the pen by Obama to reverse the decision via executive order. Instead he is simply risking the lives of millions of Americans. So you can shove your idiotic blame Bush BS where the sun don't shine, Bush isn't president anymore. Obama is president and it is 100% his decision to make.
I would suggest you do more research - maybe look for a link supporting that one that actually talks about international treaties
Last OTC Inhalers Being Phased Out
Sorry don't see the Clinton link there
It was the Bush administration who signed off on it in 2008.
Wait, wtf? environmental impact? What a load of horse ****.Please tell me this is just hyperbole and not really the EPA's position.
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
We couldn't make this other type of inhalers available over the counter? I thought this administrations position was in making health care more affordable.
Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns | The Weekly Standard
I've been following this issue for years, ever since my first personal experience with the new FHA inhalers, which was not a good one. If you don't even know the basics ie. the Clinton Admin link then you're the one who needs to do "more research".
It was under the 9th meeting of the Montreal Protocol (1997) that the medical exemption for CFC inhalers was removed. The people in this thread blaming Reagan are wrong by a decade.
More information:
LEGALIZE CFC INHALERS
Dictatorship out of Thin Air
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop wrote that there is “no comparison between the infinitesimal improvement in ozone depletion that would result from the FDA’s ban and the direct impact of forced elimination of medications on 14 million American asthmatics.”
Ben Lieberman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted,Numerous medical societies raised concerns that the wide variety of CFC inhalers currently in use will be replaced with a handful of unproven substitutes that may be inadequate for some patients. But banning CFC inhalers would have given Clinton administration officials new bragging rights at international environmental conclaves. (The Clinton administration downshifted on this initiative after the backlash.)
If the ingredients inside the inhaler are being inhaled directly into the lungs, how does it harm the environment?
Are you not inhaling the propellant as well?CFC is the Propellant not the active ingredient
Oh! Dear!
CFC is the Propellant not the active ingredient
Are you not inhaling the propellant as well?
A url for the actual text of "The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer", not a condensed version in a newspaper or magazine article. One will noticed a "one liner" ---> 3. Aerosol products, except medical aerosols.
http://ozone.unep.org/pdfs/Montreal-Protocol2000.pdf
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