Sunday, October 12, 2014

Holy Cow!! Look At What the Alabama Board of Pharmacy is Seeing During its Inspections of Compounding Pharmacies!

DR. ALVERSON: For 797, I'd say
 5 it's -- it's still all over the board of what we
 6 see. We've gone into some places that are
 7 almost virtually perfect and others that are
 8 really questionable. I guess the thing that
 9 strikes me when we go into some of them is how
 10 often we hear, oh, I didn't know that and I
 11 always have this feeling, well, it's -- it's
 12 written right -- it's written down, did you not
 13 read it, and I really have the sense of a lot of
 14 times people haven't -- haven't read it.
 I would say the other thing we're
 16 starting to see is people who don't know
 17 anything about pharmacy who have heard there's
 18 money to be made and decide they are going to
 19 open up a compounding -- sterile compounding
 20 pharmacy and -- you know, and they're going to
 21 hire a pharmacist and frequently the pharmacist
 22 has never compounded in their life and they want
 23 us to certify it. So we've been in a number of those recently where we get there and there's
 2 just a big room.

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DR. ALVERSON: Just what -- what
 19 people seem to think, I just rent a place
 20 somewhere, get a room, hire a pharmacist, and
 21 I'm going to start making sterile injections
 22 tomorrow and we're seeing more and more of that.
 23 The last one we went into we required them to
rip out the floor, rip out the counters, change
 2 the layout of rooms, I mean, to put doors in
 3 walls but --
 4 MR. CONRADI: So we're catching it on
 5 the front end of that one?
 6 DR. ALVERSON: Yeah.
 7 MR. CONRADI: That's scary.


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