Expired drugs there are three major hazards don't throw

Used batteries do not throw, otherwise it will cause heavy leakage pollution, which most people are aware of.

Can lift the expired drugs, many people still hand throw into the trash can. In fact, currently expired drugs has been explicitly included in the national hazardous waste catalogue, Jinan City, food and drug administration experts said, throwing expired drugs will cause the environmental pollution, allergy risk and sold by unscrupulous traders these three major hazards in rural areas, people'd regularly clean out your own family medicine, to an expired drugs drug administration departments determine fixed recovery point.

Cover: a lack of attention to a number of quite a few boxes of expired drugs

Yesterday morning, beat reporter at the River Road, a pharmacy, an old man or the cartridge expired drugs will be thrown into the bins.

He told reporters: "to the hospital, is the whole box, bottle opened with medicine, a lack of attention to home there will be several boxes of expired drugs. ”

Public Wei said, now whether to prescribe medicine or hospital to the drugstore to buy, the vast majority are great packaging, disease, medicine is not finished, and slowly it expired.

Municipal food and drug administration official said, now there are still some people think that a cold, headache, and other commonly used drugs often need, buy some alternate number, resulting in the accumulation of lead drug expiration; there are also many prescription individual hospitals, far beyond the patient demand for drugs; they now drugs are whole box, bottle packaging sold, some drugs may only be used once or several times, and the remaining medicine storage time is expired, it also resulted in drugs.

Impact: help yourself discarding outdated medicine brings three major hazards

"Improper handling of expired drugs, not only will harm people's health, but also pollution family and ecological environment.

"Municipal food and Drug Administration to market every Sun edge ping told reporters. "The first generation of harm is a family of security risk. "Sun Yuan-ping said, some volatile of expired drugs may become allergens. For example, penicillin, volatile, it will give to penicillin family members bring harm.

Secondly, if free to discard expired drugs, environmental pollution.

Drugs toxic decomposition of dissolved after contaminated land and water, would undermine the human, animal or plant bio chain. Therefore, the need for professional expired drugs harmless destroyed.

Finally a compromise may be greatest.

Sun Yuan-ping said, if expired drugs into illicit traders or wrongful medical institutions, they sell to rural and remote areas of the patient, will bring to the treatment of patients with unpredictable consequences. From the usual checks, countryside of expired drugs approximately two-thirds coming from the city streets, "recalled".

Countermeasures: periodically clean family medicine

The general public on how to prevent expired drugs drug sector expert advice?: good medication and buys the habit of periodically clean up the family medicine.

A family of drugs should be centralized in a drug case or drawer, placed in a light, dry, low airflow and temperature.

The name of the drug and dosage to write clearly, Mount bag or bottle. You must check before using, to an expired drugs, moldy, adhesion and can't use of drugs, firmly.

Public to reduce and eliminate expired drugs is the best way still reasonable pay, safety, drug use, drug best ad buy, periodically clean your home Kit, and expired drugs to drug administration departments determine recovery points to prevent criminals recycling.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)