Sunday, December 22, 2013

MUST READ!! Changing times don't bring changing rules for compounders

Published: Sunday, December 22, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 21, 2013 at 6:49 p.m.
Corner drugstores or drug manufacturers? That is the central question driving the debate over pharmaceutical compounders.
Many compounders conduct business like small drug manufacturers, yet they are monitored more like neighborhood pharmacies by the state departments of health and pharmacy boards, who may not even be aware of which pharmacies are simply dispensing drugs and which are mixing new compounds.
More than half of Florida's 8,000 pharmacies now make compounded drugs. Twelve percent, or 946, make the riskier sterile compounds, according to a Florida Board of Pharmacy survey last year.
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