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Post by marjar on Mar 15, 2011 20:15:00 GMT -5
In the five minutes it takes to ask Troy Jones about a sudden shortage of potassium iodide pills to prevent radiation sickness, the North Carolina owner of www.nukepills.com already has logged nearly two dozen more orders. “I’m now getting one every 30 seconds,” said Jones, 46, who has sold out of more than 50,000 doses of pills and liquid in days in the wake of fears of potential nuclear fallout from Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. Despite expert assurances that nuclear radiation won’t reach the shores of America, demand for potassium iodide has swamped the stocks of all three manufacturers or suppliers approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for use in the U.S. Anbex, Inc., of Williamsburg, Va., sold out of IOSAT pills on Monday. Fleming & Co. Pharmaceuticals, of Fenton, Mo., which makes ThyroShield Solution is scrambling to make more. And Recipharm AB, the Swedish firm that makes lower-dose Thyro-Safe tablets estimates it will take weeks to replenish its stock. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42095558/ns/health-health_care/ |
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Post by handyman2 on Mar 15, 2011 20:34:20 GMT -5
Well if you cannot get some pills just eat more iodized salt. Mix it in water and drink down. Yuck.  |
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