in Australia in 1979 due to analgesic nephropathy. Phenacetin, a pain-relieving and fever-reducing drug, was banned by the FDA in the US in 1983, due to its adverse effects, which include kidney damage (as shown by Dr. Priscilla Kincaid-Smith) and cancer. It was replaced in many other medications by its metabolite, paracetamol. See also Bex (compound analgesic) References Pharmaceutical companies of Australia Manufacturing companies based in Sydney Pharmaceutical companies established in 1919 Chemical companies established in 1919