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Medical Forum / General / Pharmacy / May 2006Pharmacist dispensed meds about to expire?
I just got a refill for Vivelle-Dot 0.1 mg/day on February 24 from CVS in the US. The package says it expires on "03 - 2006". Is this a problem? (For those who don't know, a box contains 8 systems, amounting to a 28-day supply.) But the label he printed out from the computer for the box says it doesn't expire for a year. Thanks! |I just got a refill for Vivelle-Dot 0.1 mg/day on February 24 from CVS in | the US. The package says it expires on "03 - 2006". Is this a problem? (For [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] | But the label he printed out from the computer for the box says it doesn't | expire for a year. 1. The product is interpreted to expire at the end of March so will be used up before the product has expired. 2. Not having seen the Rx label my guess is that you have authority on a precription to have the prescription refilled for 1 year ..... the expiry on the RX label usually refers to when the prescription authority will expire ... not the actual medication. > |I just got a refill for Vivelle-Dot 0.1 mg/day on February 24 from > CVS in [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > expiry on the RX label usually refers to when the prescription > authority will expire ... not the actual medication. Thanks! I was worried for a while. Re the label, it says "use before [date]", which is one year away. I know this is the pharmacist's interpretation of what the expiration date is. Usually it expires before the expiration date printed by the manufacturer next to the lot number. Both are different from when the script expires, which is written elsewhere on the label. :). Julie The Drug expires at the end of March... the use by date is unfortunately wrong.. I work in Maryland...where State Law requires a use by date on the label....and naturally the computer is programed to put a date exactly one year from the dispensing date... To change that date the Tech has to manually override that field when processing the RX. It sometimes happens BUT to be honest they very rarely do... Just about the only Rx's that are always manually overridded are liquid antibiotic Rx's with 10 or 14 day expiration dates... Doing Date Checks is a regular weekly routine in the stores I have worked in..normally done on a Saturday evening etc...and drugs are pulled from the shelves 3 months before they expire... That does not mean that the Pharmacist did not go back and poull the drug out of the Pending out of date box...done that myself more then a few times... Bob G. >> |I just got a refill for Vivelle-Dot 0.1 mg/day on February 24 from >> CVS in [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >Julie I have to agree with Bob G. The expiry date would be considered here (UK) to be the end of March. If you are taking them from now though, they will still be within the safe time, i.e. if used within the next 28 days or so. Elaine www.pharmacy-forum.co.uk The UK Forum for all things Pharmacy > The Drug expires at the end of March... > [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >> >>Julie If the manufacture's package expiration is 03-2006 that means that it "expires" on March 31, 2006 - I'm sure it would be fine to take it for some time after that. The attached label, the prescription label, will indicate the time remaining on the prescription that the doctor wrote for you. It should be fine to take. One thing you can be certain of is that the item does not sale very well at that particular pharmacy. Just as in a grocery, the items that sell fast do not have a short expiration date. The same can be said on the wholesale level. A pharmacist can order an item from the wholesaler and the wholesaler will send him one that is about to expire. The American system of repacking Rx medication into smaller bottles normally prevents the ultimate consumer from knowing the real factory expiration date. In the US an expiration date is an indication of 90% effectiveness/bioavailability product. That being the product must be at least 90% at the point of expiration > It should be fine to take. One thing you can be certain of is that the > item [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > prevents the ultimate consumer from knowing the real factory expiration > date. > In the US an expiration date is an indication of 90% > effectiveness/bioavailability product. That being the product must be at > least 90% at the point of expiration Its a lot more complicated than that and the fact is that its the last date in which the drug product is still within + or - 5% of the stated potency if a random number of dosages are evaluated from a larger group. With modern drug products, the companies aim to make that the very date in which the drug is at its stated potency with far greater accuracy than the USP stated method. The bottom line is, that experation dates are the last date which a drug can be SOLD, not used. Its not like milk. Ruben |
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