Please Help!! Question about Trade Secrets

[MaddMom]

I have an OTC drug product that I am going to have manufactured, marketed and sold but I am choosing not to get a patent on it. I am going to keep the formula a "trade secret." (This is a topical drug with an active ingredient that is already "recognized as safe and effective")

What I need to know is, taking the above into consideration, what else can I do to protect this product?

This is in the works as we speak so I need an answer as soon as someone can. Thank you so much in advance.

 

[ALawyer]

As you have to post ingredients on the label, the trade secret approach may be difficult, although CocaCola has used that approach successfully for 100 years.