COMPOUNDING PHARMACIES (H 4235)
House 151-0, Senate 39-0, approved and sent to the governor a bill that would increase the state's oversight and regulation of compounding pharmacies that create a specific product to fit the unique needs of a patient.
The bill comes more than a year after the State Board of Pharmacy voted to permanently revoke the license of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, the pharmacy at the center of the 2012 spread of fungal meningitis that infected hundreds of people across the nation and killed 64.
A key section creates four new specialty licenses including a retail sterile compounding specialty license; a retail non-sterile compounding specialty license; an institutional pharmacy license for hospitals; and an out-of-state pharmacy license for non-Massachusetts pharmacies conducting business in the Bay State.
Other provisions include mandating unannounced, detailed inspections of all sterile compounding pharmacies and requiring board inspectors to be trained in both sterile and non-sterile compounding practices.
Supporters said the bill will save lives by setting many new standards and requiring more transparency from compounding pharmacies. They argued it will hold pharmacies to high standards in quality control and sterilization.
The bill passed unanimously.
A "Yes" vote is for the bill.)
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House 151-0, Senate 39-0, approved and sent to the governor a bill that would increase the state's oversight and regulation of compounding pharmacies that create a specific product to fit the unique needs of a patient.
The bill comes more than a year after the State Board of Pharmacy voted to permanently revoke the license of the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, the pharmacy at the center of the 2012 spread of fungal meningitis that infected hundreds of people across the nation and killed 64.
A key section creates four new specialty licenses including a retail sterile compounding specialty license; a retail non-sterile compounding specialty license; an institutional pharmacy license for hospitals; and an out-of-state pharmacy license for non-Massachusetts pharmacies conducting business in the Bay State.
Other provisions include mandating unannounced, detailed inspections of all sterile compounding pharmacies and requiring board inspectors to be trained in both sterile and non-sterile compounding practices.
Supporters said the bill will save lives by setting many new standards and requiring more transparency from compounding pharmacies. They argued it will hold pharmacies to high standards in quality control and sterilization.
The bill passed unanimously.
A "Yes" vote is for the bill.)
quoted from here
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