Huang Huaide, director of the Provincial Digestion Center, said that the validity period of drugs was strictly calculated by the relevant departments through experiments. At present, the validity period of all listed drugs is generally within 1-5 years. He suggested that patients should read the instructions carefully before buying or taking drugs. Don't store too many medicines at home. Besides, you should clean the small medicine cabinet at home every once in a while and get rid of the expired medicine. You shouldn't take them just for convenience, it will harm your health.
In addition, relevant persons from the US Food and Drug Administration also reminded the public not to throw discarded drugs at will. Some special drugs are discarded at will, and the water quality will endanger human health. Take penicillin as an example, if it is handled by itself, improperly protected or released into the air, it may cause skin allergies in the surrounding people. Experts from the Environmental Protection Bureau pointed out that littering expired drugs will cause great pollution to the environment. Many drugs contain a variety of chemical elements, and once they invade drinking water sources, they will cause harm to all parties.
To this end, recently, the Provincial Digestion Center, Zhejiang Innova Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and a newspaper in Zhejiang jointly launched the "Happy Say Yes" 1 yuan public welfare activity to clean up the expired stomach medicines at home. According to statistics, at present, more than 1 1,000 people have participated in the replacement of expired drugs, and more than 1,000 kilograms of expired stomach drugs 1 1,000 have been recovered, many of which were drugs from the 1980s. (End)