The California State Board of Pharmacy will sponsor a bill that would allow inspectors to make unannounced on-site inspections of nonresident pharmacies distributing sterile compounded medications into the state. "We want to make sure that if the product is coming into California, it meets the requirements of California law,” Virginia Herold, executive director, California State Board of Pharmacy told the Los Angeles Times. The Board indicated that 86 nonresident compounding pharmacies were licensed in 2011 and 2012 compared with 17 in 2003 and 2004.
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And I'm sure the state legislature of California will provide enough funding to send investigators to all these other states to inspect their pharmacies. (sarcasm intended)
I am also fairly certain CA does not have authority to inspect in other states. That would be against the law. And that is why we have federal government. States can regulate any goods that come into the state but it would not be able tor have authority to physically go to another state and inspect.
I never really understood the "non-resident pharmacy license". It seems that these pharmacies would never get inspected by the state licensing them, so, other than "taking a pharmacy at its word" that they are doing everything in a proper (and safe) way, the state giving out the license isn't doing anything at all to ensure the public's health and safety.
That is right. The only thing is if the out-of-state pharmacy sends bad compounded drugs into the state that licensed them then that state can revoke the license and thus the right to do business in that state. I fear that the jurisdiction issue is not really being understood.
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