What to do with expired medications? How to dispose of expired drugs and recall

If there is a small amount of expired drugs or there is no ** point nearby, the following methods can be taken:

First, the drug ** point.

In the community with a special expired drug ** point, we can sort out the expired drugs at home and send them over, put the expired drugs into the expired drug ** box by ourselves, and the relevant personnel will regularly clean up the drugs in the box and then do a unified destruction treatment.

2. Send to the hospital or pharmacy.

If there is no drug point in the community, you can consult pharmacies or hospitals, and some pharmacies or tertiary hospitals have expired drugs. Some hospitals can provide yellow medical garbage bags to ** expired drugs, and then destroy them uniformly.

3. Self-processing methods.

If you don't find the drug ** point, you can only deal with it yourself. For regular tablets, soak them well in water and then pour them into the toilet to rinse them off. The capsule should be broken open first, and the particles in it should be dissolved in water before being poured into the toilet and flushed away.

Sprays should avoid contact with open flames and drain the contents thoroughly before discarding the bottle. Antibiotics, cancer medications and other special medicines should be treated with a doctor or pharmacist before consultation to avoid environmental pollution.

In fact, the best way to reduce and eliminate expired drugs is to purchase drugs reasonably and use them safely. Buy medicines as you go, don't buy large quantities of them at once, and clean up your small medicine box regularly.

For example, for tablets, separate the bottle from the tablet, that is, do not throw the medicine away in bottles or handfuls. Put the medicine in a garbage bag and throw it away.

Be careful not to let small children touch it.

Don't let your beloved pet eat it.

Hello, my friend, I am studying pharmaceutical management, I can tell you the questions you asked, please remember not to litter, that is polluting the environment Now the pharmacy has begun to **expired medicine pull, I hope you can go to the pharmacy to see, be responsible!

Don't eat because you want to save money, it's dangerous. If you can find the official location of the ** medicine, just give it there. If you can't find it, you have to throw it away. Don't give it to those self-employed people outside, they are likely to use those expired medicines to harm the general public

Go to the newspaper to reflect this problem, and then the newspaper will probably hold a large-scale expired drug ** event.

**。I studied medicine, and we often go to nearby residential buildings**. Don't litter.

Now many pharmacies have **! Go for a consultation, don't eat it again anyway, it will be dangerous to your health and even your life.

Take it to the store that sells medicine.

That's got a ** box!

Try it yourself first, it doesn't work.

It should be more scientific.

But I don't even know that there are**, usually they are put there for a long, long time, and then I don't know when they will be thrown away as garbage.

I took it to raise flowers after the vitamin C expired, I don't know if it's useful, hehe, I am reluctant to throw it away.

Legal analysis: 1. Drug points: In the community with expired drug points, you can sort out the expired drugs at home and send them over, and put the expired drugs into the expired drug boxes, and the relevant personnel will regularly clean up the drugs in the box and then destroy them in a unified manner.

2. Send to the hospital or pharmacy: If there is no drug point in the community, you can consult the pharmacy or hospital, and some pharmacies or tertiary hospitals have expired medicines.

Legal basis: "Good Management Standards for Pharmaceutical Operations".

Article 80 The marketing authorization holder shall carry out post-marketing adverse reaction monitoring, actively collect, track and analyze information on suspected adverse drug reactions, and take risk control measures in a timely manner for drugs with identified risks.

Article 81 The marketing authorization holder, drug manufacturer, drug dealer and medical institution shall regularly inspect the quality, efficacy and adverse reactions of the drugs produced, operated and used by their units. If a suspected adverse reaction is discovered, it shall be reported to the drug regulatory department and the competent health department in a timely manner. The specific measures shall be formulated by the drug regulatory department in conjunction with the competent health department.

For drugs that have been confirmed to have serious adverse reactions, the drug regulatory department or the people's drug regulatory department of the province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall take emergency control measures such as stopping production, sales and use according to the actual situation, and shall organize the appraisal within five days, and make an administrative decision in accordance with the law within 15 days from the date of the appraisal conclusion.

1. Send it to the drug ** point. Many hospitals and pharmacies will carry out the business of expired drugs, we can send these expired drugs to these places, and they will carry out professional **, and some places can also exchange expired drugs for drugs.

2. Liquid drugs. Liquid medications, such as bypass oral fluids and eye drops, can mix these liquids into the soil and bury them appropriately.

3. Capsule drugs. The drug is poured out of the capsule, which can then be properly pulverized and discarded in a sealed bag.

4. Paste drugs. For paste-like medications, they need to be squeezed out of the container and then packed into a sealed bag before being discarded.

5. Oral tablets. For oral tablets, they are removed from the pouch and foil, crushed, and then placed in a sealed pouch before being discarded. Liquid leakage.

6. Bottled drugs. For bottled medicines, do not throw away the medicine with the bottle, pour the medicine out of the bottle and put it in a sealed bag and discard it separately.

The penalty for selling expired drugs is to be ordered by the relevant departments to stop production and sales, confiscate the illegally produced and sold products, and impose a fine of not less than 50% but not more than three times the value of the illegally produced and sold products. where there are unlawful gains, confiscate the unlawful gains concurrently.

Article 117 of the Drug Administration Law.

Those who produce or sell inferior drugs shall have their illegally produced or sold drugs and illegal gains confiscated, and shall be fined between 10 and 20 times the value of the illegally produced or sold drugs; If the value of illegally produced or wholesaled drugs is less than 100,000 yuan, it shall be calculated as 100,000 yuan, and if the value of illegally retailed drugs is less than 10,000 yuan, it shall be calculated as 10,000 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend production and business for rectification until the drug approval certificate, drug production license, drug business license, jujube or medical institution preparation license shall be revoked.

If the traditional Chinese medicine decoction pieces that are produced, dismantled and sold do not meet the drug standards and do not affect the safety and effectiveness, they shall be ordered to make corrections within a time limit and given a warning; A fine of between 100,000 and 500,000 RMB may be imposed.

First of all, it needs to be made clear that the drug itself, whether it is expired or not, needs to be classified as harmful garbage, because in any case, drugs may cause certain harm to the human body and the environment in the case of different efficacy. Therefore, this also requires us to pay attention to the correct return of different garbage when sorting garbage, otherwise it is likely to cause unnecessary damage to the environment and people.

How to deal with expired medicines

Expired drugs no longer have the original medicinal properties, and they may have certain adverse effects on the human body and the environment because they have deteriorated. The second is that expired drugs are not only hazardous garbage, but also must not be destroyed, this needs to be specially treated and destroyed, otherwise the impact is also very serious, just like the environmental hazards caused by the littering of fuel cells that were very popular some time ago, if you do not do a good job of serious classification and subsequent garbage destruction on the drugs, it is likely to make the previous disaster re-staged, bringing unpredictable devastating damage to the ecological environment and the survival of organisms. Expired drugs are hazardous waste products, it contains toxic ingredients, is harmful garbage, just like lamps, if littered or classified at will, it will cause pollution to the air and water sources, and the soil will also lead to serious pollution, in fact, not only the drugs that we have bought back at home, in those pharmacies or hospitals, as long as they have been produced, and exceed the best use time, then these expired drugs should be stored in a centralized manner. Organized and rigorous disposal is carried out together, and it is classified as hazardous waste.

At the same time, it must not be treated as domestic garbage, when classifying, we must pay attention to not put it together with domestic garbage, according to reports, the pollution caused by an expired drug is equivalent to 3 times the pollution of a battery we usually use, and it can even be estimated to pollute a person's domestic water for five years, which is really a terrible number, if we do not classify it well, bury it in the soil at will, you can imagine how serious the pollution is caused.

The reason why expired drugs are classified in this category is because of their other great harms, such as delaying the disease, allergies, re-entering the market, and the most serious and fundamental environmental pollution. Therefore, we must pay attention to the category of hazardous waste when classifying in the future.