Expiration Dates

What about medicinal drugs? We consume them as well, right? and they have expiration dates as well, right? I had this bottle of tylenol once. expired two months before. I still took two every eight hours and my headache went away. So i suppose that's okay? Maybe i'm just really ignorant but it was two in the morning, my head was throbbing and the pharmacy was closed. Oh well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

I used to work in a pharmacy, and the pharmacist told me medicine is good for a year after the expiration. Expiration dates on drugs assume that the drugs were stored in the worst possible conditions (too hot or cold). At least with over the counter pills, they don't go bad, they just lose their potency. We used to stock up on Tylenol and the like when they'd get marked down for being close to expiring.

Well, that's a relief. Then I can say it was originally six months over, not two, and still be in the safe zone.

I would think that with canned products, you have to watch out for signs of rusting of the can itself, especially if the food was poorly packaged (or packaged before the mid 90's). I always imagine all that crusty rust just falling into the canned-whatever while you open it and then eating it later on thinking it's part of the seasoning.
There's a can of eggplant dip in my cupboard from four years ago and it doesn't look too good on the outside. I'm afraid to see what the inside looks like.

There's nowhere I can't reach.