Expiration dates: who is checking?
Rite Aid and CVS drug stores, accused of selling expired food, medicine and baby formula, are being threatened with a lawsuit by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Undercover investigators bought expired products at more than 250 of the two companies' stores across the state.
Eight Rite Aid and 15 CVS stores in Western New York were among those Cuomo's investigators nailed. Some of the expired products Ñ which included infant drugs and formula Ñ were on the shelves more than a year past their expiration date, which experts said can render them ineffective or harmful.
How often do you check expiration dates, and on which items? Do you ever come across expired products? How important is this investigation to consumer safety?
-- Samantha Maziarz Christmann
