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Friday, July 13, 2012
Pennsylannia Proposal Regarding Compounding Practices
| State Board of Pharmacy -Compounding Practices- 49 Pa. Code Chapter 27 (16A-5419) This proposal can be found here. | Fall 2012, as Proposed | This proposed rulemaking would establish standards for the compounding of drugs by pharmacists. Statutory Authority: Section 6(k)(9) of the Pharmacy Act, 63 P. S. § 390-6(k)(9) grants the authority to promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of the act. Section 2 of the Pharmacy Act, 63 P. S. § 390-2(11) defines the practice of pharmacy to include the compounding of drugs. | Melanie Zimmerman (717) 783-7156 |
Virginia Passes Bill to Expand Pharmacist's Compounding Authority: HB 733
Virginia laws now grant pharmacists additional authority to compound. The article below explains the new law and can be found here.
Pharmacists; compounding authority. (HB733)
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| Signed by Governor |
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Description
Pharmacists; compounding authority. Increases pharmacists' authority to compound to allow the compounding of (i) a commercially manufactured drug whose manufacturer has notified the FDA that the drug is unavailable due to a current drug shortage, or (ii) a commercially manufactured drug when the prescriber has indicated in the prescription for an individual patient that there is an emergent need for a drug that is not readily available. Amends § 54.1-3410.2 (“Compounding; pharmacists' authority to compound under certain conditions; labeling and record maintenance requirements.”), of the Code of Virginia.
Outcome
Bill Has Passed
View Bill's HistoryEasier Access to Veterinarian Disciplinary Records Needed
In line with the recent post found here about Pharmacy Boards making their disciplinary records more transparent, state veterinary boards also need to make their disciplinary records more transparent. This article found here sums up the problem:
I have more complaints filed against me than a used-car lot not that you ll ever know about it.
When she picked up her kitten, Pumpkin, from the veterinarian after a routine spaying, Mount Pleasant, S.C., resident Marcia Rosenberg was stunned to find the cat nearly comatose. Soon Pumpkin s body was wracked with seizures, and her stomach swelled. Rosenberg rushed Pumpkin to another vet, who saved the cat, but the distraught owner called her state s veterinary board to complain. Told that the board had no procedure for alerting consumers about disciplinary actions taken against incompetent vets, Rosenberg mounted a successful campaign to have such actions posted on the South Carolina veterinary board s website.
Tracking complaints against vets often requires a bit of detective work. Some state veterinary boards list disciplinary actions against vets, while others do not. And complaints typically aren' t disclosed until a board investigation and judicial ruling have determined a case of wrongdoing. On her own, Rosenberg says she was able to find that the veterinarian had previously had his license suspended in Ohio and since then had more than a dozen complaints against him in South Carolina.
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