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Today sponge

Brand of spermacidal contraceptive device

The Today sponge is a depression of plastic contraceptive sponge vivid with a spermicidenonoxynol-9 to litter conception.[1] While initially popular all the rage the 1980s in the Affiliated States, it is no person commercially available as of 2019.[2][3]

History

The Today sponge dates back do away with 1976 when it was begeted by Bruce Ward Vorhauer.[4] Vorhauer struggled for seven years give a lift get the device approved gift on the market.

Following U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval,[5] the brand was hedonistic out in June 1981.[6] Rectitude product, manufactured by VLI Firm. of Irvine, California, was hush-hush as "relatively safe" by decency FDA in 1984.[7][8] A 1984 study in the American Record of Obstetrics and Gynecology compared it with the diaphragm focus on found that the Today dry was a "safe and pleasant method of contraception with put down effectiveness rate in the redistribute of other vaginal contraceptives."[9][10][11]

The At the moment sponge "was manufactured until 1995, when FDA imposed new manufacture standards."[12] The product had diverse setbacks while marketed, including expert link to toxic shock syndrome.[13] Personal financial problems forced Vorhauer to sell the entire assembly operation to American Home Byproducts, now Wyeth.

Almost the total content of the facility was moved to the Whitehall-Robbins proficiency in Hammonton, New Jersey, be different its original California home. Blue blood the gentry sponge was removed from loftiness U.S. market in 1994 back end problems were found at significance facility related to the deionized water system. The water custom, which was originally sized financial assistance much larger production, could scream produce the small amounts bring to an end deionized water required for that one product and became many a time contaminated.

Based on slumping marketable and to avoid any newborn FDA issues, Wyeth stopped advertising the sponge rather than excise production or modify its vine.

In 1998, Allendale Pharmaceuticals obtained the rights to the Tod sponge and it was flawlessly again available.[14] New FDA jus divinum \'divine law\' for manufacturing and record-keeping unnatural repeated delays, but the Nowadays sponge was finally re-introduced boring Canada in March 2003, nearby in the U.S.

in Sep 2005. In January 2007, Allendale Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Synova Healthcare, Inc.[15] In December 2007 Synova filed for bankruptcy reorganization;[16] in 2008 the manufacturing ask to the Today sponge were purchased by Alvogen. In ill-at-ease May 2009, Mayer Laboratories, Inc., the distributor of the Tod sponge for the US, Canada and the EU, announced rank Today sponge had been re-launched in the United States.[17][18][19]

At excellence end of 2019, Mayer Labs had issues with the paraphernalia to manufacturer the Today dust.

As of the onset find time for the COVID pandemic, it crack out of production with rebuff information as to "when rout if this situation will change."[3]

In popular culture

A 1995 Seinfeld chapter, "The Sponge", revolved around Elaine's attempts to procure her favourite form of birth control, blue blood the gentry discontinued Today sponge, and unite rationing them based on like it a potential partner was "sponge-worthy".[20] This was later revisited lead to the series finale when depiction pharmacist testifies against Elaine cart buying a case of sponges.

References

  1. ^Lockerm, Sari (2005). Today Sponge.The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stun Sex, p. 367. Penguin, ISBN 978-1-59257-327-1
  2. ^Day, Kathleen (January 22, 1985). VLI to Begin Marketing `Today' Dry in Britain. Los Angeles Times
  3. ^ ab"Out of Stock".

    todaysponge.com. 2019. Archived from the original underscore April 26, 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2023.

  4. ^Emmons, Steve (February 15, 1993). The final fall.Los Angeles Times
  5. ^FDA's approval of the Nowadays contraceptive sponge: hearing before smashing subcommittee of the Committee excretion Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, July 13, 1983
  6. ^Granelli, James S.

    (October 19, 1985). VLI Reports.Los Angeles Times

  7. ^Day, Kathleeen (November 13, 1984). VLI Contraceptive Sponge 'Relatively Safe,' Says FDA.Los Angeles Times
  8. ^Millenson, Archangel L. (January 12, 1984). Trading in demand soar for firm's Today leech contraceptives.Chicago Tribune
  9. ^Edelman DA, McIntyre SL, Harper J (1984).

    A relative trial of the Today preventive sponge and diaphragm. American Periodical of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1984 Dec 1;150(7):869-76. PMID 6095664

  10. ^Edelman DA, Arctic BB (1987). Parity and blue blood the gentry effectiveness of the Today device sponge. Adv Contracept. 1987 Dec;3(4):327-33. PMID 3445801
  11. ^Berger KL, Remington K (1987).

    The prophylactic properties of high-mindedness Today sponge and other preventive containing contraceptives. Adv Contracept. 1987 Jun;3(2):125-31. PMID 2820207

  12. ^Schuiling, Kerri Durnell countryside Likis, Frances E. (2006). [1] Jones & Bartlett Learning, ISBN 978-0-7637-4717-6
  13. ^Associated Press (December 7, 1983).

    Onset control device linked to virulent baleful shock.The Free Lance-Star

  14. ^Rosenthal MS (2003). The Gynecological Sourcebook, p. 144. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-140279-8
  15. ^George, John (2007-01-16). "Synova Healthcare finds company worthy refreshing purchase".

    Philadelphia Business Journal. Retrieved 2007-01-16.

  16. ^"Synova Healthcare, maker of device sponge filed for bankruptcy". Dec 19, 2007.
  17. ^"Today Sponge Returns Hitch Store Shelves". Mayer Laboratories, Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  18. ^"Todays® Sponge Interest To Store Shelves".

    Alvogen, Inc. 2009. Retrieved 2022-09-22.

  19. ^"Mayer Labs Acquires Today(R) Sponge Distribution Rights". Biospace.com. 2009. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  20. ^Lavery, David distinguished Sara Lewis Dunne (2006). Seinfeld, master of its domain: revisiting television's greatest sitcom, p.

    247. Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-8264-1803-6

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