The Compromise Compounding Bill passed via voice vote, today. It goes back to the Senate this coming week. IACP is continuing to meet with Senate offices to address language we believe does nothing for quality standards and instead jeopardizes patients' access to the compounded medications on which they depend. You can still do something about this! Go to http://lnkd.in/bMyJv98 and let your congressional contacts know why this Bill does not help you the patient. Thanks for supporting compounding pharmacists!
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"I don't know where we're going, but we're making great time."
This train has left the station. The Senate will voice vote their approval of the bill without changes, and with all this "sequester talk" due to Obamacare battles, the President will not expend political capital by vetoing this bill.
The "voluntary" provision makes it likely rogue compounders won't register. The lack of enforcement due to state Departments of Health dropping the ball (not doing appropriate inspections; not investigating legally sufficient complaints; not prosecuting cases that are related to split-fee/kickback relationships with prescribers; etc), makes this bill (soon to be law) have no chance of stopping another NECC / Franck's / ApotheCure type tragedy with patients (human and veterinary) being blinded, maimed, and dying en mass.
As long as the regulatory agencies (FDA, State Boards of Pharmacy and the investigators/prosecutors in their
Bureaus of Enforcement) "use their gums, not their teeth", patients will not be protected.
Kenneth Woliner, MD
www.holisticfamilymed.com
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