Greetings wise ladies, We have had a large batch of APNO mixed by our 
pharmacy that we are distributing through our clinic (much more 
convenient for moms to just get it while they're here, and we can sell 
them a smaller amount - for less than compounding a whole batch for 
each mom). However, in dealing with OCEA regulations, every medication 
needs to have an expiration date - which the pharmacy is unable to 
provide us with. They have expy dates for each of the components, but 
are not able to certify that by blending them we don't cause an 
interaction that speed the degradation of any of the ingredients. so - 
has anyone been able to find a way around this to be able to determine 
the shelf life/stability of APNO? The blend we are using is 
betamethasone 0.1%, mupirocin powder so final concentration is 2%, and 
miconazole (don't have final concentration right here). this particular 
batch is compounded in a cream, not ointment, base, though in the 
future we will be using an ointment per Newman's recommendation.

If we can't provide this, they will randomly impose a 30 day shelf life 
and make us toss what's not turned over in this time.

Thanks loads!
Kirsten Berggren

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