TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas is launching a new system designed to provide better tracking of pharmaceuticals used in making methamphetamine.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt was to be joined by a pharmacist Monday at a Statehouse news conference announcing the program. The tracking system is the latest tool in the state’s campaign to reduce production and sales of meth.

Much of the effort has focused on retail sales of pseudoephedrine (soo-doh-eh-FEHD’-rihn). The decongestant is found in many cold and allergy medicines, but it’s also a key ingredient in meth.

Kansas law already limits the quantity of such nonprescription remedies that people can buy at one time. The medicines are kept behind pharmacy counters, and buyers have to sign a special register.

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