{"id":604872,"date":"2009-11-11T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"e8ea3909-50ae-426c-868a-64f3725c26bf"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:14:00","slug":"cvs-settles-with-new-york-over-expired-product-sales-north-carolina-gets-grant-for-high-risk-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604872","title":{"rendered":"CVS Settles With New York Over Expired Product Sales; North Carolina Gets Grant For High-Risk Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that CVS, the drug story chain, has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle charges that it sold products years after their expiration dates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/companyNews\/idUSN1032185020091110\" >Reuters<\/a> reports. The out-dated products, sold at 142 different stores, included \"over-the-counter drugs, baby formula, eggs and milk,\" and in some cases items were sold more than two years after expiring (Stempel, 11\/10). <\/p>\n    <p>\"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,\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jC3xkNEVTDgvKm9tmyFYRXFvtswAD9BSUBJG1\" >The Associated Press<\/a> reports. \"Cuomo reached a similar settlement with Rite Aid in 2008\" (11\/10). <\/p>\n    <p>In North Carolina,\u00a0the federal government is\u00a0giving\u00a0that state a\u00a0$1.5 million grant to provide monthly subsidies to people to aid participation in\u00a0the state's high risk insurance\u00a0pool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncnn.com\/content\/view\/5152\/26\/\" >North Carolina News Network<\/a> reports. \"The state's high risk pool provides health care coverage for those who cannot find affordable insurance in the private market\" (Reinhardt, 11\/11).<\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/pC8MGUKo0OU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that CVS, the drug story chain, has agreed to pay $875,000 to settle charges that it sold products years after their expiration dates, Reuters reports. The out-dated products, sold at 142 different stores, included &#8220;over-the-counter drugs, baby formula, eggs and milk,&#8221; and in some cases items were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xm0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}