Recalled over-the-counter OSP products still on shelves in Jamaica
When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a black box warning on prescription oral sodium phosphates (OSP) Visicol and Osmo Prep, medications used to clear the bowel before colonoscopies and other procedures, C.B. Fleet also removed its over-the-counter OSP solutions from store shelves. While safe when used in low doses as a laxative, those products, known over-the-counter by such brand names as Fleet Phospho-soda and Fleet Accu-Prep, when used in higher doses for bowel cleansing, have been linked to a serious form kidney injury called acute phosphate nephropathy. Despite the warnings issued here in the U.S., the products are still widely available in countries like Jamaica.