Expired Medicines

The Supreme Court Monday refused to interfere with an order passed by the Delhi High Court on a plea raising the issue of alleged re-use of expired medicines by erasing original manufacturing details and re-stamping them, saying it was a "correct ord

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...

Hours after he derided Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an NRI or Non Resident Indian because of his foreign visits, Bihar politician Lalu Yadav was described as "expired medicine" by former friend turned BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan.

A Noble cause went a somewhat off-track when medicines distributed at an anemia awareness programme early this week turned out to be beyond the use-by date.

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.

The Supreme Court Monday refused to interfere with an order passed by the Delhi High Court on a plea raising the issue of alleged re-use of expired medicines by erasing original manufacturing details and re-stamping them, saying it was a "correct ord

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...

Hours after he derided Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an NRI or Non Resident Indian because of his foreign visits, Bihar politician Lalu Yadav was described as "expired medicine" by former friend turned BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan.

A Noble cause went a somewhat off-track when medicines distributed at an anemia awareness programme early this week turned out to be beyond the use-by date.

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.