Medical Care

SOP for Handling Expired Medicine

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一、Steps for People to handle expired medicine (general medicine)

1. Pour syrup into a zipper bag.

2. Rinse the gallipot with water that should also be poured into the zipper bag.

3. Take medicine out of the foil or medicine bags.

4. Put all the pills, capsules, and tablets into the zipper bag.

5. Mix the tea slag, used coffee grounds, or used paper towels with syrup, pills, capsules, and tablets.

6. Seal the zipper bag and throw it into the garbage can for the landfill (Most of the domestic garbage is incinerated with high temperature, which is in line with the principle of medicine disposal.)

7. Recycle clean medicine bags and gallipots according to their materials.

二、For expired medicine for cancer, please return it to the original hospital for disposal.

• 編修日期：2020/07/20
• 上稿單位：Tainan City Government