CVS Settles Expired Product Lawsuit

Pharmacy will Pay New York State $875,000

(AP)  New York officials say they've reached an $875,000 settlement with CVS Pharmacy Inc. to stop sales of expired products - including food, medicine and baby formula.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who announced the agreement Tuesday, sued after investigators bought expired goods in 60 percent of CVS stores they canvassed across the state.

The settlement ends a lawsuit that the state filed after it said CVS breached a prior agreement to halt expired sales.

A CVS spokesman says the company is committed to keeping expired products off shelves and that the settlement doesn't include any admission of wrongdoing.

Cuomo reached a similar settlement with Rite Aid in 2008.

CVS is the retail division of Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS Caremark Corp. It has about 432 New York stores.

[puzzler125]

I find something expired almost every time I shop at grocery, big box, and other stores.

[Ichabod09]

Narcotics sales in South Florida, expired products with CVS,assembly line dispensing and Medicare "prescription price adjustments" Just what are the qualifications to be classified as a "trusted profession"?

Gee, and I thought organized religion was in trouble! Or is medicine the new religion?