Yearly 37 billion won of drug scrapped on overdue shelf lives

Yearly about 37 billion won worth of drugs are scrapped because of the overdue shelf lives, which did not include the disposal expenses at about 16 million won per product.

The Deregulation Reform Council collected a data covering the 5 year value of disposal drugs at 172 billion won of the locally manufactured drugs and 13.5 billion won of imported drugs, the total 185.5 billion won. ...