{"id":1675,"date":"2024-08-15T01:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2024-08-15T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:30:35","slug":"u-s-media-a-market-over-the-counter-expectorant-cough-medicine-or-containing-carcinogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"U. S. Media: a market over-the-counter expectorant cough medicine or containing carcinogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1676 aligncenter\" title=\"f8695dfe89569726\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/f8695dfe89569726.jpg\" alt=\"f8695dfe89569726\" width=\"897\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/f8695dfe89569726.jpg 897w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/f8695dfe89569726-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/f8695dfe89569726-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MUCINEX, an over-the-counter expectorant and cough medicine sold by supermarkets including Walmart, may contain benzene, a carcinogen, fortune reported Monday, citing a Bloomberg analysis. As a well-known brand in the United States, MUCINEX has been the most popular expectorant cough medicine on the market.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the drug is divided into brand-name drugs and general-purpose drugs sold in supermarkets in two types. Although they work the same way, the inactive ingredient used in the generic version may contain benzene. The general-purpose drug is widely sold at CVS, an American drugstore chain, and at big chains like Walmart, Target and Walgreens, according to a Bloomberg analysis of government data, millions of consumers may have unknowingly purchased drugs containing benzene.<\/p>\n<p>Benzene is a known potent carcinogen and is closely associated with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUCINEX, an over-the-counter expectorant and cough medicine sold by supermarkets including Walmart, may contain benzene, a carcinogen, fortune reported Monday, citing a Bloomberg analysis. As a well-known brand in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,257],"tags":[454,269],"views":77,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}