Expired Medication Found In Drug Store Chains
Officials accused two drug stores chains of selling outdated milk, baby formula, and pills. Hours after this accusation was made several expired medications were seen on the shelves of the drugstores. The acetaminophen pain relievers were supposed to have been pulled down last year – but were still being sold in New York at the lower East Side CVS store. Other expired drugs were found in a Rite Aid.
“I’m very shocked - do you know how many Benadryls I bought here?” asked Sonnithia Springer, 15, of Brooklyn. “It makes me not trust them.”
“How could anybody let that go unnoticed?” said Peter Pruitt, 21, outside a CVS near City Hall.
The state’s three-month probe found dozens of expired medicines - including popular names like Bayer aspirin and store brands - on shelves at about half of the CVS and Rite Aid stores probed. The expired medications pose a serious health risk to those who have bought them and they are a waste of money.
“It’s a double whammy for the consumer,” Andrew Cuomo Attorney General said.
Both Rite Aid and CVS promised to cooperate and ordered store to check for expired products of any kind.
CVS and Rite Aid vowed to cooperate and ordered stores to check for expired products.
“I’m disgusted,” said Shawn Love, 19, of Queens. “No one should have to consume expired goods.”
Like many consumers, Sarah Harper, 35, of Brooklyn, blamed the problems on the disappearance of trusted mom-and-pop drugstores, which once dotted the city.
“It’s unacceptable,” said Antonio Lamota, 58, of Queens, who was shopping for eye drops at a CVS in Greenwich Village. “You’re dealing with human lives. You can’t be negligent.”