Supporting a wealth of wildlife, the mangroves are a unique habitat. Mangroves are like botanical amphibians, and form some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. They provide food, shelter, firewood and construction materials that have been harvested sustainably for thousands of years.
Check the expiration date on your vitamin supplements for the first indication of how long they'll last. Vitamin supplements typically bear an expiration date of a year or so from the time they're manufactured. If you store them properly, they should stay potent for at least this long. After the expiration date, you can still expect to use them without harm, but there's no guarantee on potency.
They noted that the Shelf-Life Extension Program allows drugs in federal stockpiles to be retained for up to 278 months after their stated expiration date if tests show they are still potent. But some of the ingredients tested in this study remained good for 480 months â so far.he expiration date on a drug is usually one to five years after it was manufactured. But those dates are often set arbitrarily, since the Food and Drug Administration doesnât require pharmaceutical makers to test how long the active ingredients will last, the researchers wrote.