A couple of corrections/clarifications…
1) The study that is being conducted by the University of Missouri, which allowed people who have used CaraCream or ChocoBase to continue buying it once they are enrolled, closed on March 1, 2006 for any new participants. Only those who have already enrolled in the study can continue to buy these products.
2) Although CaraCream and Zegerid were both created here at the University of Missouri, Zegerid is not made here but rather in San Diego by Santarus Inc. When the University of Missouri sold the rights to make Zegerid to Santarus, part of the deal was a non-compete agreement which said that we would no longer sell CaraCream or ChocoBase in the US except for research purposes. This non-compete agreement does not extend outside the US, so we are able to continue selling these products to anyone outside the US.
3) There is also a survey/study set up with one of our biggest distributors in the US, FlavoRx, which allows them to sell CaraCream to pharmacies as long as they fill out a form explaining why they need to use CaraCream instead of using Zegerid. Any pharmacy can order from FlavoRx. They are a large pharmaceutical distributor that most pharmacies should already be familiar with. This is the only way that CaraCream is available commercially within the US, unless you have already been enrolled in the aforementioned study.
If you do have access to CaraCream or are interested in finding out more about it, please email me (andrewsjj@health.missouri.edu). I will give you the information that you need to make sure that your pharmacy is compounding it correctly, or any other information that you need.
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YAY for getting caracream/chocobase via Flavorx!!! I just linked to this page/post from ‘Prevacid 101’ 
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