New product for allergies can't be used making meth

scottw@standard-democrat.com

SIKESTON -- A drug manufacturer appears to have recently released the solution that could make everybody happy -- everybody except meth cooks, that is.

According to Mark McClendon, SEMO Drug Task Force supervisor, a new product called Zephrex D appears to be very much like Claritan D and other products that contain pseudoephedrine with one important exception: the pseudoephedrine can't be extracted.

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