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Phildelphia City Councilwoman Maria D. Quiñones-Sánchez introduced legislation today outlawing the sale of expired medication and infant formula in Philadelphia. Quiñones-Sánchez, along with bill sponsors Blondell Reynolds Brown and William K. Greenlee have grown increasingly frustrated as the CVS drugstore chain has been repeatedly caught selling expired products while the city lacks enforcement power to stop it.
Nearly 100 protestors took to the streets of Santa Ana, California yesterday to speak out against CVS's continuing sales of expired food and medicine. Standing beside a table full of expired goods recently purchased in California, community leaders called on CVS to "stop disregarding the health of our children and families" by selling out-of-date products.This isn't the first time CVS has been criticized for selling expired goods. In June 2008, California Attorney General Jerry Brown investigated CVS stores in Southern California in response to consumer complaints. His staff found expired products on the shelves at 26 CVS stores in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. Brown was quoted at the time saying "CVS Pharmacy should immediately pull these expired products from its shelves and ensure that these consumer safety violations do not occur again."
Despite Brown's appeal to the company, CVS's expired goods problem is still unresolved. Even within the last few weeks, activists were able to buy out-of-date products at CVS stores - months after Attorney General Brown called on the company to resolve the problem. Will public outcry persuade the company to commit to not selling expired goods?
Read more about yesterday's protest in the Orange County Register.
A news brief from Fox 25 in Boston about expired goods for sale at CVS stores.
Change to Win organizers Langston Peace and Kate Titus in front of a CVS in Downtown Boston, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008, with an assortment of outdated items purchased from CVS stores in the region as part of an effort to warn consumers about expired and potentially dangerous or ineffective products for sale at some area CVS stores.
Expired infant formula, medication and milk on display in downtown Boston, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008.
Change to Win/Cure CVS volunteer Chris Foster in front of a CVS in downtown Boston, Monday, Dec. 22, 2008.
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