Philadelphia Seeks Action against CVS for Selling Expired Products
On March 25, Philadelphia City Council members and community groups held a conference to urge the city’s law department to take action against CVS drugstore for repeatedly selling expired products.
According to this article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the State of New York sued CVS in December over the chain’s sale of expired products and California is in the process of suing the drugstore. The purpose of the press conference on the 25th was to seek help from the city. Philadelphia council members want to encourage the city solicitor to follow the similar legal actions of those two states.
Council members are willing to take necessary legislative action including fines for the sale of expired medicines causing adverse drug reactions in Pennsylvania.
The conference had a display of 36 expired items bought at 15 CVS drugstores around Philadelphia from January to March. They included over-the-counter medications and infant formula to dairy products.
Allergy tablets had expired over a year before purchase and an infant’s gas relief medicine was close to two year’s outdated.
According to one of the Councilmen, legal action is needed to protect the community from the dangerous products in Pennsylvania sold at CVS drugstores. Citizens are at risk.
As a consumer, you have the right to assume that products you purchase or use have been produced in a manner that would ensure that they are safe and free from unreasonable risks. If a company manufactures or sells a product that is hazardous to the user, the company must be held liable for any injuries or fatalities that occurred due to the faulty and defective product in Philadelphia and across the Nation.
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