Drug Expiry Debate: An Approach to Myth and Reality

Abstract

Hospital, nursing homes, and retail pharmacies and consumers toss away and more so hospitals alone discard over $800 million in drugs annually. If we can modify to work around it, so that it will be beneficial to the African and Asian continent, especially more so in the peripheral outreach health centres in Africa where availability and storage of medicines are a challenge. The cost implications of these studies are staggering and has shown that each dollar spent to demonstrate longer than labelled drug stability could translate to $94 saved on repurchasing these products.