August 9, 2017
ABC – RUM Project: What you should do with expired and unwanted medicines
Stored away in bathroom cabinets and kitchen cupboards across the country are expired and unwanted medicines.
Not only are these out-of-date and no-longer-required Pharmaceuticals taking up space, they are also potentially dangerous.
“The ingredients may not be active, so they might be ineffective or could potentially make you sick,” said Toni Riley from the Return Unwanted Medicines national scheme, aka the RUM Project.
“The active ingredients can go off easily.
“Medicines are designed to be stored in specific temperature conditions and most of our homes don’t comply with that and where people keep their medicines is not ideal.”