Expiration dates

can I have your 360 and games when you die?

LOLZ Get your Bucket list finished Quick! I wonder how they figure that crap out too. They can't even get the milk expiration right.

Will it turn to poison the day after the expiry date? No. Do drugs lose their potency over time? Absolutely. How do they figure that crap out? Stability testing. Stability testing is a requirement both for new drugs and those on the market for years upon years. Every so many batches, depending on the drug, a manufacturer needs to pull a set of samples for retain over the years, and test them periodically. Tests include stability, which ensure that the API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) is still at the potency claimed on the drug label. I'd recommend (and the practice I follow in my house) to buy pharmaceuticals in the smallest quantity possible, even if its at a slight premium. BJs or other wholesalers will have you tossing more meds than you take over time.

Here is what the smart people at Harvard have to say about it: http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update1103a.shtml "So the expiration date doesn't really indicate a point at which the medication is no longer effective or has become unsafe to use. Medical authorities state expired drugs are safe to take, even those that expired years ago. A rare exception to this may be tetracycline, but the report on this is controversial among researchers. It's true the effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but much of the original potency still remains even a decade after the expiration date. Excluding nitroglycerin, insulin, and liquid antibiotics, most medications are as long-lasting as the ones tested by the military. Placing a medication in a cool place, such as a refrigerator, will help a drug remain potent for many years."

Damn, and I was hoping Mike was seriously fucked. Cuz that would have been hilarious.

I will take that thank you as "yes rabb"