MYTHS OF EXPIRY DATES.
एक्सपायरी डेट चे गौडबंगाल FAMILY OF DOCTORS IN ENGLAND HAVE BEEN HAMMERING THIS POINT THAT MEDICINES DON’T EXPIRE. AN 80 YEARS OLD WELL KNOWN DOCTOR, IN MUMBAI, WITH VAST EXPERIENCE INSIST ON SAME POINT. DO MEDICATIONS REALLY EXPIRE ??????u Some reassuring and very useful info !!!!!!! By Richard Altschuler Does the expiration date on a bottle of a medication mean anything? If a bottle of Tylenol, 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 questions I investigated ...