Last year (ended March 20), the most widely used over the counter medicines were acetaminophen and acetaminophen codeine, respectively, IRNA quoted Rasoul Dinarvand, head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as saying. Unfortunately, consumption of antibiotics beyond reasonable limits, can lead to increase in antimicrobial resistance, which occurs when “a microbe acquires genetic mutation making it resistant to the effect of one or more antimicrobial agents that were once effective,” he added.
