By Edward Lamb, About.com GuideNovember 7, 2012
Commenting yesterday on the proposed Verifying Authority and Legality in Drug (VALID) Compounding Act, I neglected to mention one of the bill's major provisions.
I apologize for this oversight in describing possible changes to pharmacy compounding oversight. My only real explanation for doing so is that I can hardly believe the draft of the VALID Compounding Act calls on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to "create and maintain a 'Do Not Compound' list of drugs that are not safe or effective when compounded and make the list available to the public and state regulators."
The problem with requiring such a thing is that the list already exists in the form of Schedule I maintained by the U.S. Drug Administration under the Controlled Substances Act.
Here's what I mean:
Can you see any purpose in a Do Not Compound list?
Source found here
Commenting yesterday on the proposed Verifying Authority and Legality in Drug (VALID) Compounding Act, I neglected to mention one of the bill's major provisions.
I apologize for this oversight in describing possible changes to pharmacy compounding oversight. My only real explanation for doing so is that I can hardly believe the draft of the VALID Compounding Act calls on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to "create and maintain a 'Do Not Compound' list of drugs that are not safe or effective when compounded and make the list available to the public and state regulators."
The problem with requiring such a thing is that the list already exists in the form of Schedule I maintained by the U.S. Drug Administration under the Controlled Substances Act.
Here's what I mean:
- Drug compounding is literally the making of medication doses.
- Any medication dose that would be unsafe to make by compounding would, therefore, be unsafe to make in any manner.
- A drug would be defined as unsafe almost exclusively on the grounds that it causes harm to users without producing health benefits.
- Schedule I controlled substances are, by law (though not consensus), drugs and other chemicals determined to cause harm without producing recognized health benefits.
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers are already barred by law from making products containing Schedule I drugs, as are compounding pharmacists or pharmacy technicians.
Can you see any purpose in a Do Not Compound list?
Source found here
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