Nearly 50,000 fined OTC pharmacies for overdue sales

The pharmacy sold a box of expired OTC, the illegal income was 6.

The pharmacy sold expired medicines for RMB 6 and was fined 150,000 yuan

Recently, the Shizhong District of Jinan City issued a notice that the civilian pharmacy of Jinan Yongyu Pharmaceutical Technology Development Co.

According to the relevant regulations of the New Drug Administration Law, drugs that have exceeded their expiry date are considered inferior drugs

In accordance with the above-mentioned laws and regulations, the local regulatory authority imposes the following penalties on the pharmacy:

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Avoid selling expired drugs, pharmacies should do this well

Since the implementation of the new Drug Administration Law, the sale of expired drugs is the sale of inferior drugs, and the sale of inferior drugs is fined at a minimum of 100,000 yuan.

In fact, most pharmacies sell expired drugs because of errors in the business process and fail to remove the relevant drugs in time

Why does this happen? This is mainly related to the management plan of "near-effective drugs" in pharmacies

The so-called "near-acting drugs" generally refer to pharmacies positioning the near-acting period within 3-6 months according to the characteristics of the drugs

The pharmacy Huixiang wrote that in general, in addition to removing "near-effective drugs", pharmacies will also carry out promotional activities for the drug.

It is not difficult to see that in order to reduce losses, pharmacies choose to sell "near-effective drugs", but if errors occur in the inspection and statistics process, expired drugs will appear on the container.

In August 2020, the local court of Ankang City, Shaanxi held that in its judgment, the pharmacy did not regularly check the expiration date of the drugs displayed in the sales area, nor did it mark or prompt it, and did not provide corresponding evidence to prove that it has implemented effective measures to avoid expired drugs.

Aiming at pharmacies to do a good job in selling "near-effective drugs", pharmacy Huixiang proposes two specific measures:

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Whether the medicine expires is related to 3 factors

Avoid unintentionally selling inferior drugs.

The Shanghai Pharmaceutical News wrote that the specific expiration date of a drug is mainly related to three factors: the expiration date of the drug, the expiration date of the drug, and the storage conditions
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Drug validity period: refers to the period during which the drug can maintain the quality of the drug under the prescribed storage conditions
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It is usually marked on the outer packaging and label of the drug
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The expression of the expiry date of a drug is usually the following examples:

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The validity period is until 2020.
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08, which means that the drug can be used until September 8, 2020
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The validity period is until 2020.
09, which means that the drug can be used until September 30, 2020, which is the last day of September
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The expiration date of 2020.
09 means that the drug can be used until August 31, 2020
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Drug use period: The period of time the drug can be used after the drug is opened
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After the drug is opened for the first time, its original stability changes and needs to be used within a certain period of time.
This period is different from the drug's expiry date and is usually shorter than the drug's expiry date
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The expiration date of some commonly used dosage forms is listed here for your reference
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Storage conditions: usually refers to the storage conditions required by the drug instructions, such as room temperature, refrigeration, protection from light, etc.
The following are specific instructions for various storage conditions
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