I was thinking in the lab, what if the ingredients expired before the students get to the bottom of the bottle.Do they stick on a new expiry date and pretend that it isn't or do they update the expiry date on the list but retained the original expiry date on the packaging.
I reckon it is a good way to save some pennies. After all, all products end up down the sink.
The pharmacy I worked at has a lot of expired ingredients. No, I have not compounded anything before in real life, only in so called real life simulation scenario - the pharmaceutics labs. So, our patients are perfectly safe.
I fail to see the relevance of pharmaceutics labs and some parents, not my parents, reassured me that the knowledge is crucial if I were to venture into large scale manufacturing next time.
I however, beg to differ. The most important aspect of large scale manufacturing is the formulation and theories behind it. Machines take care of the rest, the mixing, the grinding, the dissolution, the Quality Assurance and Control are all done by the machines, and humans just operate them, supervise and of course come out with the formulation. Humans do what they are good at, the same for the machines.
Thus, I fail to see the relevance of over emphasize on compounding sessions.
I gave in to the elders. They think my eyes are too young to grasp the big picture and I think they just want to be heard because that is what they do best.
In some circumstances, hands on experience are valuable such as counseling process; compounding extemporaneous products, not so.
Just allow me to drift off a little - if BN government were to buy new ingredients each time, Song would definitely lament how the government is wasting so much money instead of using those $$$ to help the rakyats.
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