By Carol Gentry
Compounded Drugs: HB 7077 closes a loophole in Florida law that posed a significant danger to the public from out-of-state compounding pharmacies, which make drugs and ship them to hospitals and clinics in Florida. Current law allows the Department of Health to license and inspect only those compounders based in Florida, but hundreds of compounders in other states also have Florida licenses.
DOH took a survey after the New England Compounding Pharmacy in 2012 caused an outbreak of fungal meningitis that killed scores of patients in many states, including Florida. Hearings and work by the Board of Pharmacy determined that pharmacies that make “sterile” drugs – usually liquid drugs that must be kept sterile because they enter the bloodstream – must be required to get a permit.
But while the Board of Pharmacy could require that of pharmacies in-state, the loophole eliminated the requirement for those based out-of-state. (See: Time to Fix Glitch in Pharmacy Law?)
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Compounded Drugs: HB 7077 closes a loophole in Florida law that posed a significant danger to the public from out-of-state compounding pharmacies, which make drugs and ship them to hospitals and clinics in Florida. Current law allows the Department of Health to license and inspect only those compounders based in Florida, but hundreds of compounders in other states also have Florida licenses.
DOH took a survey after the New England Compounding Pharmacy in 2012 caused an outbreak of fungal meningitis that killed scores of patients in many states, including Florida. Hearings and work by the Board of Pharmacy determined that pharmacies that make “sterile” drugs – usually liquid drugs that must be kept sterile because they enter the bloodstream – must be required to get a permit.
But while the Board of Pharmacy could require that of pharmacies in-state, the loophole eliminated the requirement for those based out-of-state. (See: Time to Fix Glitch in Pharmacy Law?)
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