Compounding is Focus of 2012 Inspections by Wyoming Board of Pharmacy

The following appears in the March 2012 Newsletter for the Wyoming Board of Pharmacy: 

Focus of Inspections in 2012
By Hank York and Richard Burton, Compliance Officers♦ Review of self-inspection forms sent to pharmacists-in-charge in
November 2011.
♦ Quarantine of recalled medications separate from other items to be
returned.
♦ Precautions being taken against employee pilferage and other
controlled substance security issues.
♦ Reconciliation processes for controlled substance perpetual inventory must be clear and accurate.
♦ What happens if a medication error is discovered?
♦ Compounding records including competency.♦ Impact of drug shortages and counterfeit drugs – what are pharmacies doing?
♦ Institutional compliance to Chapter 17, Sterile Compounding,
required as of January 1, 2012
.♦ Institutional pharmacy after hours remote order entry.