Gothamist: Cuomo Blasts Drugstores Selling Expired Drugs, Food

sonyactivision

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:18:56 -0500

Thanks to Andrew Cuomo, my OxyContin is always fresh and groovy!

ANGRYGOD11

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:28:47 -0500

Cuomo is doing his job. He is serving the public and bringing attention to a problem before someone gets hurt. One day on the news cycle will do more good than hundreds of inspections by "honest and hard-working" inspectors. If only we had people like him in the NYC Dept of Buildings, some people would still be alive.

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:14:30 -0500

Even if you have purchased something past its expiration date, most stores will exchange it without a hassle. Cuomo needs to have his foot shoved up his own ass for all of the crap he's been stepping in lately.

Spiritof76

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:04:48 -0500

[3] Just what I was thinking. He's being needlessly alarmist even if he is trying to help the consumers. Some milk on that list was two days past expiration. It may taste a little off, but I doubt it will have curdled yet and it's still a ways off from being unsafe. Still, I would have checked the date because I expect anything I buy at full price to be unexpired. I've had potato chips four months after their expiration and it didn't kill me. I wouldn't say the drugs are fine for years after expiration, but certainly a few months of declining effectiveness.

Steven

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:51:14 -0500

Customers should check the expiration date before buying the product.

eyekantspel

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:51:07 -0500

more baloney press conferences from politicians looking for free exposure as they get ready to run for office. Should stores be selling expired drugs? of course not, there are laws/regulations already in place. So have state inspectors do their jobs, fine the places, etc. I suppose all this "look at me" stuff by politicians comes with the job, but I wish they could just do their work quietly without all the self-promotion.

dcsos

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:38:51 -0500

Yeah, save your money and buy a PVC shower curtain. The chemicals in these never expire! By The Way, the same CVS's are gouging customers 50 or 60 cents per half gallon of milk in new york this June

JenChungsBra

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:22:03 -0500

Not that stores should be selling expired pharmaceuticals, but it's wrong to say that drugs past their expiration date "become ineffective." That big ibuprofen bottle you have in the medicine cabinet doesn't suddenly go from effective to ineffective overnight. It's fine for years. And what's up with the expiration dates on water?

nicemarmot

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:18:51 -0500

Um. If Cuomo didn't already know this, he never lived in the city. I used to live next to a Gristedes that was literally filled with rotting food. Every so often they'd throw some rotting food out, but the store was still stocked with expired, smelly, dented, bruised, disgusting "food" items. Why is he trying to blame CVS? It's not them, it's the city. The supply chain here sucks.

drtmuir

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:09:04 -0500

Um, why can't we comment on the Steely Dan piece?