# Over the counter preparations available in Canada but not elsewhere

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-the-counter-preparations-available-in-canada-but-not-elsewhere/488881 "2009-03-09T22:22:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-the-counter-preparations-available-in-canada-but-not-elsewhere/488881/21 "2009-03-10T20:24:14Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> - For one day. Then all Savlon in the UK was recalled because an animal rights group issued a press release saying they had contaminated Savlon because the manufacturer used animal testing. :rolleyes: Out went our nice tubes of Savlon.

I never heard about that one. But I think our tube of Savlon dates back to the days before there was such a thing as animal rights (or even animal testing, probably!)

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