Delaware News: Return of Medications and Supplies

Topics: Medication collection program disposal

Published in the March 2009 Delaware State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter

Regulation 5.11 states that prescriptions and items of personal hygiene shall not be accepted for return or exchange by any pharmacist or pharmacy after such prescription or items of personal hygiene have been taken from the premises where sold, distributed, or dispensed. Products under the direct control of a health care professional and which are packaged in manufacturer unit-dose or tamper-proof unopened bulk containers, tamper-proof seal intact, including unused multi-dose punch cards, may be redispensed in accordance with expiration dating in customized patient medication packages. Partially used products may not be redispensed. Nothing in this regulation precludes the federal laws and regulations.