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Nursietoday at 4:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

When was this changed?

I arrived in Aus in 2021 and was amazed to be able to buy a pack of 40+, coming from the UK where the limit had been in place for some years.


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brainwadtoday at 6:38 AM

You can still buy 100 packs, they are just behind the counter at chemists. TBH it's a rather stupid restriction - do they think people only ever own 1 packet of paracetamol at a time? In my household we have at least half a dozen, including a 100-pack from Oz and a 500-pack from America.

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pugiotoday at 4:39 AM

Jan 2025: https://www.psa.org.au/changes-to-paracetamol-scheduling-wil...

It's the usual public health balancing act of help vs harm.