EDMONDS, Wash. – Top Food & Drug in Edmonds wants customers to know about the investigation into one of its former employees and warn about expired drugs and possible credit card fraud.

Top Food & Drug is calling this incident devastating. For the supermarket it's all about trust, but a trust some customers say has been broken.

"I'm offended personally because I have a husband who's extremely ill. He's been in the emergency room twice this year and I would have liked to think the medications he was receiving were good," said Leah Wall who, like so many others, relies on the pharmacy in her favorite supermarket.

Now the Edmonds Top Food & Drug on Highway 99 is recalling prescriptions filled in the past 90 days.

The move comes after management learned the pharmacist had been dispensing expired medications.

"It's my husband's health that has been put at risk here, and the faith that I've put in my pharmacist. Oh, yeah, I'm mad," she said.

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And it's not just the drugs that are at risk. Customers' credit card information may also have been stolen and misused.

The supermarket chain says the now-fired pharmacist has been arrested in connection with the investigation into the alleged credit card fraud.

Experts believe the health risk from the expired drugs is minimal, and anyone who had prescriptions filled between June 1 and September 2 can bring them in to have the remaining doses replaced free of charge.

Not affected are factory-sealed drugs such as birth control pills, inhalers, eye and topical medications, and injectable drugs, which usually have an expiration date printed on them.

Top Food and Drug says it has replaced the entire pharmacy stock in the Edmonds store, but rebuilding trust may take a little longer.

Top Food & Drug says it will be sending letters to anyone who had a suspect prescription filled. They are also in the process of identifying any credit card numbers which may have been compromised, and those cardholders will be contacted directly.