How to penalize expired medicines found in a health office

The sale of expired medicines is penalized by the relevant authorities. For consumers, a refund or replacement of the purchased drugs, the consumer has taken and caused damage, compensation for the loss caused by the damage. Consumers who have suffered personal or property damage as a result of the purchase, use of goods or acceptance of services have the right to compensation in accordance with the law.

Production and sale of substandard drugs, confiscate the illegal production and sale of drugs and illegal income, and impose illegal production and sale of drugs of the value of the amount of ten times the amount of twenty times the fine; illegal production and wholesale of drugs of the value of less than 100,000 yuan, calculated in accordance with the 100,000 yuan, illegal retail sales of drugs of the value of less than 10,000 yuan, calculated in accordance with the 10,000 yuan; the circumstances are serious, and shall be ordered to suspend production and rectify the situation Until the revocation of drug approval documents, drug production license, drug business license or medical institutions preparation license. Production and sale of traditional Chinese medicine tablets do not meet the drug standards, does not yet affect the safety and efficacy, ordered to make corrections within a certain period of time, and given a warning; may be imposed a fine of 100,000 yuan or more than 500,000 yuan.

Expired drugs are handled in the following ways:

(1) Send them to drug collection points. Many hospitals and pharmacies carry out the business of recycling expired medicines, so you can send these expired medicines to these places for professional recycling, and in some places, you can exchange expired medicines for medicines;

(2) Liquid medicines. Liquid medicines such as oral liquids, eye drops and other liquid medicines can be mixed with these liquids into the soil and properly disposed of in a landfill;

(3) Capsule medicines. The drugs will be poured out of the capsule, and then can be properly crushed and processed, and then put into a sealed bag to be discarded.

Legal basis

"Chinese People's **** and the State Drug Administration Law"

Article 118 of the production and sale of counterfeit drugs, or the production and sale of substandard drugs and the circumstances of the seriousness of the case, to the legal representative, the main person in charge, the directly responsible for the competent personnel and other responsible personnel, confiscate the period during which the illegal act occurred The legal representative, the principal person in charge, the person in charge directly responsible and other responsible persons shall be confiscated the income gained from the organization during the period when the illegal act was committed, and shall be fined not less than thirty percent and not more than three times of the income gained, and shall be prohibited from engaging in the activities of production and operation of medicines for life, and may be sentenced to a detention of not less than five days and not more than fifteen days by public security organs. The raw materials, auxiliary materials, packaging materials, and production equipment used exclusively by the producer for the production of counterfeit or substandard drugs shall be confiscated.