Fentanyl: Followup to case where Pharmacy Student Who Worked at Compounding Pharmacy Died --Pharmacy where he Worked Surrender Registration in NY as Did Pharmacist on other grounds

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Jun 21, 2014 - ... 22-year-old College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences student died as... as an intern at Rockwell Compounding Associates Inc. in Rye, N.Y.,  .

Steven J. Cosentino; Rye, NY

Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 031570; Cal. No. 27463

Regents Action Date: July 8, 2014

Action: Application to surrender license granted.

Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of compounding medications without patient specific prescriptions and distributing the medications in bulk for office use without a wholesaler’s or manufacturer’s registration; after receiving notification that a drug compounded at the pharmacy failed sterility testing, failing to inform the prescriber and/or patient receiving the drug that it failed sterility testing; compounding medications without patient specific prescriptions and distributing said medication in bulk without a wholesaler’s or manufacturer’s license, in willful or grossly negligent failure to comply with New York Education Law; compounding medications without patient specific prescriptions and distributing said medications in bulk for office use; on more than one occasion, dispensing written prescriptions which did not contain the address and/or age of the patient for whom the prescription was intended; selling a batch of an adulterated drug, Avastin, and being aware that a sample of said batch of Avastin had microbiological contamination, and not following the pharmacy’s established written procedure in handling microbiological contamination in violation of good manufacturing practices.

Rockwell Compounding Associates, Inc.; 350 Theodore Fremd Avenue – Third Floor, Rye, NY

Profession: Pharmacy; Reg. No. 026458; Cal. No. 27464;

Regents Action Date: July 8, 2014 (see also January 2014)

Action: Application to surrender registration granted.

Summary: Registrant did not contest charges of compounding medications without patient specific prescriptions and distributing the medications in bulk for office use without a wholesaler’s or manufacturer’s registration; after receiving notification that a drug compounded at the pharmacy failed sterility testing, failing to inform the prescriber and/or patient receiving the drug that it failed sterility testing; compounding medications without patient specific prescriptions and distributing said medication in bulk without a wholesaler’s or manufacturer’s license, in willful or grossly negligent failure to comply with New York Education Law; compounding medications without patient specific prescriptions and distributing said medications in bulk for office use; on more than one occasion, dispensing written prescriptions which did not contain the address and/or age of the patient for whom the prescription was intended; selling a batch of an adulterated drug, Avastin, and being aware that a sample of said batch of Avastin had microbiological contamination, and not following the pharmacy’s established written procedure in handling microbiological contamination in violation of good manufacturing practices.

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