Very good, perceptive article that can lead to a lot of further research on “drug expiration dates” and possibly to great financial savings as well as “drug” donations.
During the Vietnam war, a lot of us donated small soap bar pieces to be reprocessed and sent to our guys in S. Vietnam and to charities who worked on health issues there.
I watched people wash their clothes in the canals, get drinking water for it, wash themselves in it, and possibly relieve themselves in or near it [Don’t ask me about the cesspool outside of fake VC leader Madame Binh’s “Little Red School” headquarters. It’s enough to make you puke” - Ben Tre City, Khien Hoa Province, Nov. 1970).
Soap donations helped many orphanages and “chosen” schools (i.e. those helped by American forces in the area).
Cambodia was even worse.
My sister died in March and we found a lot of both old and new medicines in her medicine chest. We had to get rid of all of them. This often included medicines she had an allergic reaction to on the first or second pill. Therefor 28 or more often were trashed.
THIS IS PURE STUPIDITY. When a nearly acquired drug is not used up, it should be recycled through a medical processing group that checks its ingredients and potency for viability.
Then they should certified as usable and donated to local health clinics or, in the case of the doctor from Venezuela, to places where “socialist medicine” will kill you (for lack thereof).
Common sense at the FDA has been absent for far too long. It is time to get them off their asses and into the 21st Century.
Typed too fast. The word “nearly” in the next to last paragraph should read “NEWLY”.
“Then they should BE certified...” (Omitted the “BE”).