Expiration dates on prescription pill bottles

[Deja Q]

You've heard they're fake and you can use pills YEARS after they expired, right?

So when I looked through my pantry, I came across a tin of Cream of Chicken soup. Exp date is 07/2004


Should I use it?

[BarenakedLady]

1. Is that true?

I mean that prescription pill expirations dates are fake? Because that could totally be used to my advantage...or disadvantage depending on how you looked at it.

[SPKrazy]

2. Is The Can Bulging At The Seams?

if not I'd probably eat it, just boil it good.

[Deja Q]

4. The can isn't bulging at the seams...

Can't say the same for its owner, though... :7

[SPKrazy]

5. LOL

it's probably fine

get someone else to taste it first

if they don't die, it's okay

:rofl:

[zonkers]

6. Give it to mikey.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Strange...

I was thinking about this just yesterday.

:yoiks:

[mduffy31]

7. There was a US Army study that said

that some prescription drugs are good up to 96 months past the expiration date, but the pharmaceutical companies disagree. I have a friend who has done some missionary nursing work in Africa and they often use drugs that in the Western world are "Expired." As far as the soup, I wouldn't use it, but that is just me.

[femmocrat]

8. Throw it away.

It probably tastes more like the can at this point.

[pitohui]

9. you can use it

canned food (except tomato products) is really good for 20 years, it just ain't at its peak of flavor

the things we learned in the nuclear hysteria years!

[ThomCat]

10. Some meds do go stale.

They may still work, but the aren't as strong. You no longer have any control over the actual dosage if they're too old.