Expired Drugs

In 1979, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring an expiration date on prescription and over-the counter medicines. -The medicine expiration date is a critical part of deciding if the product is safe to use and will work as intended,- says Ilisa Bernstein, Pharm.D., J.D., Deputy Director of the Office of Compliance in FDAs Cente...

The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections.

The market for copycat biotech drugs, known as biosimilars, is becoming more lucrative as patents expire on older, high-priced antibody drugs that rank among the pharmaceutical industry's biggest sellers.

McDonald's and KFC's parent Yum, along with a number of other global brands, have been pulled into a food safety scandal in China after it emerged that Shanghai Husi Food, a unit of US-based OSI Group LLC, had supplied expired meat to clients.

Global drugmakers are under increasing pressure from investors to step up restructuring as patents on best-selling drugs expire and governments try to keep a lid on health costs.

According to a petition filed by UCB Inc, UCB Pharma GMBH, Research Corporation Technologies, Inc and Harris FRC Corporation the patent of its drug Lacosamide Tablets, 50 mg, 100 mg, 150 mg and 200 mg would expire on March 17, 2022.

The US drug maker requested the court to pass an order to restrain DRL from commercially manufacturing, using, offering for sale, selling, marketing, distributing, or importing DRL's generic paricalcitol injectable products prior to the expiration of said patents.

Sales in the US, where Pfizer's patent expired on November 30 for Lipitor, the top-selling drug in history, fell to $5.95 billion, from $7.02 billion.

If you are in Chennai, there is a good chance that the medicine you buy from your local drug store might have expired, even though the label says otherwise.

In 1979, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring an expiration date on prescription and over-the counter medicines. -The medicine expiration date is a critical part of deciding if the product is safe to use and will work as intended,- says Ilisa Bernstein, Pharm.D., J.D., Deputy Director of the Office of Compliance in FDAs Cente...

The US state of Arkansas is racing to execute eight death row inmates in 10 days next month to beat the expiration date on a hard-to-get drug used in lethal injections.

The market for copycat biotech drugs, known as biosimilars, is becoming more lucrative as patents expire on older, high-priced antibody drugs that rank among the pharmaceutical industry's biggest sellers.

McDonald's and KFC's parent Yum, along with a number of other global brands, have been pulled into a food safety scandal in China after it emerged that Shanghai Husi Food, a unit of US-based OSI Group LLC, had supplied expired meat to clients.

Global drugmakers are under increasing pressure from investors to step up restructuring as patents on best-selling drugs expire and governments try to keep a lid on health costs.

According to a petition filed by UCB Inc, UCB Pharma GMBH, Research Corporation Technologies, Inc and Harris FRC Corporation the patent of its drug Lacosamide Tablets, 50 mg, 100 mg, 150 mg and 200 mg would expire on March 17, 2022.

The US drug maker requested the court to pass an order to restrain DRL from commercially manufacturing, using, offering for sale, selling, marketing, distributing, or importing DRL's generic paricalcitol injectable products prior to the expiration of said patents.

Sales in the US, where Pfizer's patent expired on November 30 for Lipitor, the top-selling drug in history, fell to $5.95 billion, from $7.02 billion.

If you are in Chennai, there is a good chance that the medicine you buy from your local drug store might have expired, even though the label says otherwise.