Expiry Dates

There is ongoing discussion on what a medicine's or drug's expiration date actually implies. Pharmaceutical firms assert that this is the longest period of time over which they can guarantee the efficacy and security of a medicine. However, anecdotal and scientific research shows that expiration dates may not be all that important and that nearly all medications are safe and retain their effectiveness even years after their expiration dates.

Drug corporations typically lack the motivation to evaluate a drug's effectiveness after years on the market in order to update the expiration date, even if it is perfectly simple to do so. On the other hand, expiration dates guarantee ongoing sales because most customers regularly discard old medication because they believe it to be ineffective.