Federal offiicals want the makers of Zephrex-D to back off its claims that it's "meth-resistant", according to a Missouri newspaper.
According the St. Louis Post Dispatch, officials with the Drug Eforcement Administration say they were able to extract pseudoephedrine from Zephrex-D.
So, technically, that means it could be used to make meth.
"And even with the 'superlab', they only got just a half-percent yield, which is NOTHING," Starkey said.
But KRMG News talked to David Starkey with the group Stop Meth, Not Meds, and he points out the Feds were using a very sophisticated government laboratory to extract the pseudoephedrine, something the average drug-addict would obviously not have access to.
Starkey says you can't get pseudoephedrine from Zephrex-D with the "one-pot", or "shake-and-bake" method, which is how the vast majority of meth is made by drug-dealers and drug-addicts.
He goes beyond the drug maker's claim of "meth-resistant", saying he regards it as "meth-PROOF".