Niok:
Omo e no fit better for tilumbu o

Omooo... This is extreme 😭

😂😂😂olohun maje o sije😅

If you notice anything after eating it let us know

Niok:
Omo e no fit better for tilumbu o

😂😆 lolxxxxx hahahaha ma tinubu givam d food?

Give me few minutes of your time to those involved!! Just remember if you had eaten expired gala before,lol

Oh no! See what politicians caused to Nigerians

Elsueno:
it's 'best before' , So no worries...it just means it isn't as delicious or fresh after that said date.


Besides those things like 'expiring date' etc are mostly scam( they want U to eat quicky & buy more), sometimes its just one of the things that made up the product loosing its efficacy. unless u see some insects, spoilage or very abnormal taste or smell...Enjoy ur food.

Imagine them putting expiring date on grains ... Capitalists are very greedy bunch

Food doesn't expire... It only has best before meaning, the date until which a foodstuff retains its specific properties, e.g. taste, aroma, appearance, any specific qualities which relate to the product, vitamin content, etc.

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As for prescription drugs, MOST of them are still very POTENT decades after manufacturers alleged "expiration dates."
=>https://www.propublica.org/article/the-myth-of-drug-expiration-dates

Pharmacist and toxicologist Lee Cantrell tested drugs that had been expired for decades. Most of them were still potent enough to be on the shelves today. (Sandy Huffaker for ProPublica)



WASTED MEDICINE

The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer.

by Marshall Allen July 18, 2017, 5 a.m. EDT

The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing. Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates — possibly toxic, probably worthless.

But to Lee Cantrell, who helps run the California Poison Control System, the cache was an opportunity to answer an enduring question about the actual shelf life of drugs: Could these drugs from the bell-bottom era still be potent?

Cantrell called Roy Gerona, a University of California, San Francisco, researcher who specializes in analyzing chemicals. Gerona had grown up in the Philippines and had seen people recover from sickness by taking expired drugs with no apparent ill effects.

“This was very cool,” Gerona says. “Who gets the chance of analyzing drugs that have been in storage for more than 30 years?”

The age of the drugs might have been bizarre, but the question the researchers wanted to answer wasn’t. Pharmacies across the country — in major medical centers and in neighborhood strip malls — routinely toss out tons of scarce and potentially valuable prescription drugs when they hit their expiration dates.

Gerona and Cantrell, a pharmacist and toxicologist, knew that the term “expiration date” was a misnomer. The dates on drug labels are simply the point up to which the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies guarantee their effectiveness, typically at two or three years. But the dates don’t necessarily mean they’re ineffective immediately after they “expire” — just that there’s no incentive for drugmakers to study whether they could still be usable.

ProPublica has been researching why the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world. One answer, broadly, is waste — some of it buried in practices that the medical establishment and the rest of us take for granted. We’ve documented how hospitals often discard pricey new supplies, how nursing homes trash valuable medications after patients pass away or move out, and how drug companies create expensive combinations of cheap drugs. Experts estimate such squandering eats up about $765 billion a year — as much as a quarter of all the country’s health care spending.


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=>https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-investigate-wasted-health-care-dollars


This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog.

The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing. Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates — possibly toxic, probably worthless.

But to Lee Cantrell, who helps run the California Poison Control System, the cache was an opportunity to answer an enduring question about the actual shelf life of drugs: Could these drugs from the bell-bottom era still be potent?

Cantrell called Roy Gerona, a University of California, San Francisco, researcher who specializes in analyzing chemicals. Gerona had grown up in the Philippines and had seen people recover from sickness by taking expired drugs with no apparent ill effects.

“This was very cool,” Gerona says. “Who gets the chance of analyzing drugs that have been in storage for more than 30 years?”

The age of the drugs might have been bizarre, but the question the researchers wanted to answer wasn’t. Pharmacies across the country — in major medical centers and in neighborhood strip malls — routinely toss out tons of scarce and potentially valuable prescription drugs when they hit their expiration dates.

Gerona and Cantrell, a pharmacist and toxicologist, knew that the term “expiration date” was a misnomer. The dates on drug labels are simply the point up to which the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies guarantee their effectiveness, typically at two or three years. But the dates don’t necessarily mean they’re ineffective immediately after they “expire” — just that there’s no incentive for drugmakers to study whether they could still be usable.

ProPublica has been researching why the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world. One answer, broadly, is waste — some of it buried in practices that the medical establishment and the rest of us take for granted. We’ve documented how hospitals often discard pricey new supplies, how nursing homes trash valuable medications after patients pass away or move out, and how drug companies create expensive combinations of cheap drugs. Experts estimate such squandering eats up about $765 billion a year — as much as a quarter of all the country’s health care spending.

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About $765 Billion Is Wasted Each Year on Health Care. Can You Help Us Find It?
What if the system is destroying drugs that are technically “expired” but could still be safely used?

In his lab, Gerona ran tests on the decades-old drugs, including some now defunct brands such as the diet pills Obocell (once pitched to doctors with a portly figurine called “Mr. Obocell”) and Bamadex. Overall, the bottles contained 14 different compounds, including antihistamines, pain relievers and stimulants. All the drugs tested were in their original sealed containers.

The findings surprised both researchers: A dozen of the 14 compounds were still as potent as they were when they were manufactured, some at almost 100 percent of their labeled concentrations.

“Lo and behold,” Cantrell says, “The active ingredients are pretty darn stable.”

Cantrell and Gerona knew their findings had big implications. Perhaps no area of health care has provoked as much anger in recent years as prescription drugs. The news media is rife with stories of medications priced out of reach or of shortages of crucial drugs, sometimes because producing them is no longer profitable.

Tossing such drugs when they expire is doubly hard. One pharmacist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital outside Boston says the 240-bed facility is able to return some expired drugs for credit, but had to destroy about $200,000 worth last year. A commentary in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings cited similar losses at the nearby Tufts Medical Center. Play that out at hospitals across the country and the tab is significant: about $800 million per year. And that doesn’t include the costs of expired drugs at long-term care pharmacies, retail pharmacies and in consumer medicine cabinets.

After Cantrell and Gerona published their findings in Archives of Internal Medicine in 2012, some readers accused them of being irresponsible and advising patients that it was OK to take expired drugs. Cantrell says they weren’t recommending the use of expired medication, just reviewing the arbitrary way the dates are set.

“Refining our prescription drug dating process could save billions,” he says.

But after a brief burst of attention, the response to their study faded. That raises an even bigger question: If some drugs remain effective well beyond the date on their labels, why hasn’t there been a push to extend their expiration dates?

It turns out that the FDA, the agency that helps set the dates, has long known the shelf life of some drugs can be extended, sometimes by years.

In fact, the federal government has saved a fortune by doing this.

For decades, the federal government has stockpiled massive stashes of medication, antidotes and vaccines in secure locations throughout the country. The drugs are worth tens of billions of dollars and would provide a first line of defense in case of a large-scale emergency.

Maintaining these stockpiles is expensive. The drugs have to be kept secure and at the proper humidity and temperature so they don’t degrade. Luckily, the country has rarely needed to tap into many of the drugs, but this means they often reach their expiration dates. Though the government requires pharmacies to throw away expired drugs, it doesn’t always follow these instructions itself. Instead, for more than 30 years, it has pulled some medicines and tested their quality.

The idea that drugs expire on specified dates goes back at least a half-century, when the FDA began requiring manufacturers to add this information to the label. The time limits allow the agency to ensure medications work safely and effectively for patients. To determine a new drug’s shelf life, its maker zaps it with intense heat and soaks it with moisture to see how it degrades under stress. It also checks how it breaks down over time. The drug company then proposes an expiration date to the FDA, which reviews the data to ensure it supports the date and approves it. Despite the difference in drugs’ makeup, most “expire” after two or three years.


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https://www.abc15.com/news/state/billions-of-dollars-of-life-saving-drugs-being-destroyed


Billions of dollars of life-saving drugs being destroyed

By: Angie KoehlePosted 5:59 AM, May 15, 2019 and last updated 11:03 PM, May 16, 2019

Life saving medicine is thrown away daily. Some of it is paid for with your tax dollars.

"It's being shredded and destroyed. This medication has already been paid for by Medicare," said Joel Lucia, a licensed pharmacist.

The EPA estimated in 2015 about 740 tons of drugs are wasted by nursing homes each year throughout America. They may be leftover from a patient who went home before finishing it, or from someone who passed away. That's just nursing homes. Pharmacies and manufacturers are also tossing perfectly good, sealed medication too. Once it gets close to expiring, it's taken off the shelves and eventually dumped into furnaces.


"Most of them are expensive. Your medication for asthma, diabetes, blood pressure, hypertension, cholesterol. It's medication that people need on an everyday basis to survive," said local pharmacist, Steve Hayslett.

Hayslett used to be a retail pharmacist in the Valley. Watching people forced to leave empty handed was a tough part of the job. "It's very sad. It's disheartening," he said. "You see hope drain from their faces thinking they were going to come in and get care, only to realize that it's more expensive than what they can afford."

Fausto Lanfur knows that rejection. "The insurance I have now has a $5,000 deductible before I can start using it," Lanfur said. Ironically, he's a certified nursing assistant. "It doesn't cover me," he laughed. "There are a lot of people at my work with the same situation I have."

Every month Lanfur goes to the Mission of Mercy (MOM) mobile clinic to get his diabetes and blood pressure medicine.

The non-profit hands out 30,000 medications a year. MOM pays for the drugs with donations it receives. A lot of the medication is the same type of medication that is being destroyed by pharmacies, manufacturers and nursing homes.

"For us to be able to work with those organizations and be able to accept those medications would be so valuable," said Paula Carvalho, executive director of Mission of Mercy. "It would free up money to serve people who need our help."

Some states have an established a drug donation program, collecting unused, unexpired medication. Arizona lawmakers passed a law allowing a similar program, but it's not operational. Hayslett believes there needs to be more incentive to participate. It would require extra work for donors to gather the drugs and then get them to a facility that can accept them.

For drug makers, it may not be worth the hassle when many of them are already turning multi-billion dollar profits. But Hayslett believes he has a solution to curb some of the waste. He is one of the founders of San Rio Health, a new non-profit pharmaceutical wholesaler. "The goal is to get medications donated to us from other wholesalers, manufacturers. The manufacturers would get a tax credit for the donation," said Hayslett.

San Rio Health would then supply medication to clinics like Mission of Mercy for free, or at a reduced cost. San Rio has teamed up with NITE Foundation, another nonprofit, dedicated to providing neurology services for those in need.

The organizations have a warehouse in Tempe to store the medicine, but right now, the shelves are empty. Hayslett and his team spend their days reaching out to wholesalers and manufacturers to explain the process.

"The issue is a lot of companies don't realize this is an option," said Hayslett.

Hayslett believes it could be the cure for so much unnecessary waste.

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