expired medications

Starting next year, pharmacies in our country will be provided by the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency with special bins for collecting expired medicines, including mercury thermometers. Finally, they will be destroyed by environmentally friendly methods. The authorities resorted to this method to put an end to the practice of haphazardly throwing away old dishes. According to the director of the Medicines Agency, Zinaida Bezverhni, this harms both the environment and people's health, because antibiotics or cytostatic drugs contaminate the soil and water. "There will be special boxes or crates, in which