California Board of Pharmacy to Discuss Extension of Board Approval of Accrediation Agencies (ACHC, CHAP, PCAB, and HFAP) for Sterile Injectable Compounding Pharmacies

2. Discussion and Possible Action Regarding Extension of Board Approval of Accreditation Agencies for Sterile Injectable Compounding Pharmacies until July 1, 2014:

A. Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc. (ACHC) Currently Approved Through February 2014

B. Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP) Currently Approved Through February 2014

C. Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB) Currently Approved Through February 2014

D. American Osteopathic Association Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) Currently Approved Through February 2014.
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quoted from here: NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA - Board of Pharmacy

 

Well What Do you Know! Specialty Compounding Was PCAB accredited also Just Like Some of the Other Compounding Pharmacies With Huge Issues. So How Did They Get And Maintain PCAB Accrediation?

Specialty Compounding provides an efficient solution for patients, doctors, hospitals, clinics and ambulatory surgery centers. Our pharmacy processes meet or exceed the industry standards and guidelines established by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy and United States Pharmacopeias. Specialty Compounding is a PCAB accredited and a licensed DEA drug manufacturing facility.

quoted from here and accessed on August 15, 2013

Question of the Day 4/21/2013 PCAB Clearly is Not Working the Way It is? After all A number of the High Risk Compounding Pharmacies that the FDA

found problems with PCAB had found no problems with.  Is there anyway for PCAB to become credible again? Should state boards of pharmacies and the federal government come up with their own accrediting agency that is public rather than a private accreditation agency?  What should that accreditation agency or model look like?