Does poison have an expiry date too?
All drugs have an expiry date (at least most of them), as poison is also a drug, should there be an expiry for it too?
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If it does, it would be printed on the bottle/package somewhere. Look for a “Sell by…” or “Good through…” or “Expiration…” date.
Who or what are you looking to poison, by the way?
Any chemical mixture – compound or single chemical – has a definite span of time over which the chemical(s) become less potent.
The trick is knowing the rate of loss of potency (in other words, it takes 6 months for Belladonna to lose half its strength) and the normal strength of the poison. And that’s going to be different for a compounds, poisonous or not.
It’s a similar principle – although not the same – as radioactive half life.
Chances are, it will just be poisonous in a different way.
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