How to deal with the lack of risk of expired drugs?

How to deal with expired drugs in the family? According to a survey, the proportion of Chinese residents who can correctly treat expired drugs is less than 20%, and 73.4% of residents treat expired drugs directly into the garbage bin. Even some people continue to reluctantly take or sell to illegal drug dealers because they are not willing to waste.

The reporter learned that, in fact, once the drug has passed the validity period, the deterioration process will be very rapid, not only the effective ingredients will fall, but also other harmful substances. Many residents have thrown expired drugs into their domestic garbage bins, but they have not realized that improper disposal of expired drugs will cause pollution and even flow into the gray area.

Expired drugs are hazardous waste

Due to the lack of standardized processing channels, expired drugs can easily fall into the hands of unscrupulous traders and re-enter the market, infringing consumer rights.

According to the reporter's understanding, there may be two situations after taking expired drugs. One is that there is no drug effect, because some drugs will naturally weaken after the drug expires, or even no effect at all, which will delay the timing of patients' treatment. . One is that the medicine will be poisoned after eating, which will not only cure the disease, but also cause adverse consequences, and even endanger life safety. Even if you don't get in the way, it is not correct to discard expired drugs directly. In fact, according to the “National Hazardous Waste List” issued in 2016, the drugs, drugs and drugs that are ineffective, deteriorated, unqualified, eliminated, and inferior in the process of production, sales and use are hazardous wastes. Improper disposal of expired drugs can cause drugs such as antibiotics to enter the groundwater, soil and other environments, causing damage to the soil and water environment.

"According to our investigation, the recovery of expired drugs in China is still quite serious." Wang Chunyu, deputy director of marketing of Guangzhou Baiyunshan Hutchison Whampoa Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd., said in an interview with China Business Daily that "the main performance is in the public The lack of awareness of drug recovery and the illegal recycling of lawless elements disrupt the drug market. However, the most fundamental point is that the treatment of expired drugs in the family is still a legal blind spot, including laws and regulations such as the Drug Administration Law on the disposal of expired drugs for families. No regulations."

In Wang Chunyu's view, expired drugs will cause three problems if not recycled. First, it increases the public's risk of drug use and becomes a family “small bomb”. Inadvertently taking expired drugs will not only delay the disease, but also cause damage to the human body. Second, if expired drugs are discarded at will, they will also pollute the environment and toxic decomposition of drugs. When dissolved, it will contaminate the land and water and destroy the biological chain. At the same time, if some special drugs are discarded at will, it is likely to induce human diseases, so expired drugs have been explicitly listed in the “National Hazardous Waste Catalogue”. What is more serious is that if a large number of households, especially urban households, are not managed effectively, once they are flown into the hands of illegal traders or illegal medical institutions, the purchased drugs will be repackaged and then flowed to the market and sold to the public. Profiting from it will bring hidden dangers to the safety of the public. Statistics show that nearly one-third of the current cases of adverse drug reactions in China are caused by improper storage of expired drugs or drugs.

In fact, due to the lack of standardized processing channels, expired drugs can easily fall into the hands of unscrupulous traders and re-enter the market, infringing consumer rights. According to relevant media reports, a number of stalls selling expired drugs have appeared in Tianjin recently, and most of these expired drugs are purchased for the elderly. The Nankai District Market Supervision Bureau of Tianjin and the Nankai Branch of the Public Security Bureau recently conducted a surprise investigation on four illegal drug-dropping stalls in Xiguan Street, and confiscated hundreds of boxes of expired drugs.

Recycling point is hard to find

The reporter visited several pharmacies and found that only one pharmacy could recycle expired drugs. The staff of other pharmacies said that they did not recycle expired drugs. In this pharmacy that can recycle expired drugs, the reporter randomly interviewed several consumers who are buying drugs. Only one of the seven consumers interviewed said that they would send expired drugs to the pharmacy for recycling.

The reporter visited several communities and pharmacies in Beijing. Among the residents and pharmacy consumers interviewed, most of the respondents said that they did not know that expired drugs need to be recycled separately. Ms. Yang told reporters that although she usually prepares some cold medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs at home, she does not pay much attention to whether the medicines have expired. "I don't usually go to see the shelf life of these drugs. I am sick. I have to look at the medicines when I have to take the medicine. If I have expired, I will throw the trash can. I have never heard that the expired medicine will cause pollution. I have seen places that specialize in recycling expired drugs," Ms. Yang said.

In fact, Ms. Yang’s approach is not a special case. Among the residents interviewed by the reporter, only a few people said that they knew that expired drugs would pollute the environment. Most people said that they did not know that expired drugs needed to be recycled separately. The reporter followed Ms. Yang to her home and asked Ms. Yang to sort out the drugs in her home and found many expired drugs. Some drugs have expired for 3 years. After learning that expired drugs need to be recycled separately, Ms. Yang is ready to find a suitable place for these expired drugs. However, several districts in the vicinity did not find expired drug recycling bins. The reporter asked other residents and said that they did not know whether there was a drug recycling bin nearby.

The reporter then visited several pharmacies and found that only one pharmacy could recycle expired drugs. The staff of other pharmacies said that they did not recycle expired drugs. "You take over the expired drugs, and you don't have to worry about them later. We will concentrate on them." When the reporter asked about the final flow of expired drugs, a pharmacy staff told reporters. When the reporter asked residents whether they would actively encourage the recovery of expired drugs, the staff member also clearly stated that there was no reward or reward.

However, even if a pharmacy can recycle expired drugs, residents may be reluctant to send expired drugs to the pharmacy. In this pharmacy that can recycle expired drugs, the reporter randomly interviewed several consumers who are buying drugs. Only one of the seven consumers interviewed said that they would send expired drugs to the pharmacy for recycling. “Garbage recycling is of course a good thing. Battery recycling like ours is very effective now. But it is not very convenient to recycle medicines through pharmacies. First of all, it’s a hassle to go to the pharmacy for expired drugs, like my home. It’s far from here, although I know that it can be recycled here, but I don’t want to run it for the treatment of expired drugs, I hope I have some more convenient recycling methods. In addition, I hope that this recycling has some incentives, such as buying The medicine can be discounted or can be exchanged for some small gifts, otherwise there is no motivation to run a pharmacy to deal with expired drugs." Consumer Mr. Liao said the general idea of ​​the respondents.

Government and enterprise work together to improve the recycling mechanism

In addition to establishing a mechanism for strengthening community publicity, encouraging pharmacy recycling, and conducting unified disposal of household expired drugs, it is also possible to further expand the channels of recycling by means of food and drug science stations.

The problem of expired drug recycling has also received increasing attention. Recently, the Gansu Provincial Food and Drug Administration issued the "Key Points for the Supervision and Administration of Drugs and Cosmetics Circulation in 2018", one of which is to ensure the safety of medications, to recycle household expired medicines, and to set up "expired drug collection points" in retail pharmacies and primary medical institutions. Through extensive publicity campaigns on safe drug use, the people are actively guided to consciously clean up family expired drugs. After the “expired drug collection points” are registered and recycled, the county-level drug regulatory authorities regularly destroy the recovered drugs in a harmless manner. Not long ago, the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration also said that in addition to establishing a mechanism for recycling and disposing of family expired drugs to strengthen community publicity, encourage pharmacy recycling, and unified disposal, the drug and drug science stations will also be used. Further expand the channels of recycling.

Companies are also playing a role in the recovery of expired drugs. Wang Chunyu told reporters that during the SARS epidemic in 2003, some citizens had accumulated a large amount of drugs, but after SARS, these drugs were facing expiration problems. Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group was aware of this problem, so it completely replaced the expired products in the hands of consumers with the latest batch of Baiyunshan Banlang. In just half a year, it exchanged 1.2 million yuan of brands in more than 30 provinces and autonomous regions across the country. package. According to statistics, since the establishment of the expired drug recycling mechanism of the Guangyao Baiyun Mountain family, it has accumulated more than 1,500 tons of expired drugs and more than 600 million beneficiaries.

Not only is GPHL in action, but recently, GPHL also joined Ali Health and a number of pharmaceutical companies to establish a family expired drug recycling alliance, and more than 6,000 pharmacies in more than 200 cities across the country can carry out offline drug recycling. Citizens in 17 key cities across the country can scan the code by mobile phone and make free appointments for couriers to collect expired drugs. Wang Chunyu told reporters that the expired drugs recovered by the company will be sent to the local waste disposal company, and contact the local food and drug administration to carry out harmless destruction under their supervision. (China Business News Li Meng Chen Wenli)

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