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Re:The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates by yomly on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:13PM (#14800785)
I would expect the chemistry to be characterised well enough to the point where you shouldn't need clinical tests to know it's degredation profile...
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Re:The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates by EpicEng on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:26PM (#14800893)
I don't know about that. There are variables beyond theoretical chemistry, like the packaging, the manufacturing process, etc.

I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable on pharma, but I worked on an FDA regulated medical device. If we made a claim, we had to test it. Knowing that e.g. every component in the machine was rated safe between temperatures X and Y did not mean that we didn't have to perform real environmental testing.

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Re:The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates by ekianjo on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @10:52PM (#14801764)
Regulations don't want you to rely on models.
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Re:The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates by Kalium on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:44PM (#14800992)
From what I read, current expiration dates are produced by the sort of actual testing I described.
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