Is there an expiry date for medicine?
Before 1979 no expiry date was mentioned on medicines, this practice started in the USA in 1979. An article shared by Dr Mohsin Jaffer of Florida, USA. DO MEDICINES REALLY EXPIRE OR ARE WE TAKEN FOR A RIDE? A Family of Doctors in England & in Mumbai have been hammering the point that medicines don’t expire... By Richard Altschuler If a bottle of Tylenol, (Paracetamol) for example, says something like "Do not use after June 1998," and it is August 2002, should you take the Tylenol? Should you discard it? Can you get hurt if you take it? Will it simply have lost its potency and do you no good? In other words, are drug manufacturers being honest with us when they put an expiration date on their medications or is the practice of dating just another drug industry scam, to get us to buy new medications when the old ones that purportedly have *expired* are still perfectly good? These are the pressing points I wanted to investigate. I immediately scoured the medical databa...