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After years of clinical testing among more than 1,800 women worldwide who used Today Sponge throughout more than 12,000 menstrual cycles, Today Sponge was introduced to the U.S. Market in April 1983. However on a routine visit by the FDA a problem was found with the water at the manufacturing plant. The manufacture realizing they made more money selling other products ignored the products popularity and its NEED. Ignoring its importance to today's women around the world manufacturing of the the Today Sponge was stopped.

The Today Sponge was the first new contraceptive method to appear in decades and, for more than 10 years it was the most popular female, over-the-counter birth-control method around. Five years after its release, 75 million sponges had been sold. During its 12 years on the market, it is estimated that 6.4 million women (11 percent of all women using contraceptives at the time), had tried the sponge at least once, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit family-planning advocacy organization.

Allendale Pharmaceuticals comes to the rescue but.....

The following comes from an article written by By Jenn Shreve of Salon .com

While thousands of Elaines stockpiled sponges, Canadian women were enjoying a perfectly decent alternative, the Protectaid Sponge. In fact, the Protectaid Sponge may be even better, according to Barbara Bell, host of the Canadian-based Birthcontrol.com, which sells the Protectaid Sponge (to Americans and Canadians alike) and will sell the Today Sponge when it's available. She explains: "There are a lot of women who are less allergic to the Protectaid Sponge ," which uses a mix of three spermicides instead of just nonoxynol 9, which many women and men are allergic to. It also has three finger slots for removal instead of the sponge's string.

" Particularly frustrating for American women is the fact that the Today Sponge was deemed perfectly safe by the FDA when it was taken off the market. It was American Home Products' plant, where the Today Sponge and several other pharmaceutical products were produced, that had problems -- specifically, high levels of bacteria in its air and water.

Gene Detroyer, president and CEO of Allendale Pharmaceuticals, explains: "What American Home Products did is take their big products to a new plant. Those that could be made by an outside packer were sent to contract packers. The Today Sponge fell in between. It had to be made on special equipment. It wasn't a very big product, $20 million in sales. They decided not to do anything with it but to sell it."

Allendale bought the patent and the equipment and moved it to a new plant. All that remains now is FDA approval of the new plant, which has been a slow and grueling process, to say the least. In fact, Detroyer refused to comment on the agency's snail's pace, lest there be ramifications that would slow approval even further.

Women around the world can thank Allendale Pharmaceuticals for trying to bring back the Today Sponge. For the Life of us we can not see why the FDA refuses to allow the product on the market

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