North Carolina News: Electronic Tracking of Pseudoephedrine Sales

October 31, 2011 5:03 PM Topics: Pseudoephedrine

Originally published in the October 2011 North Carolina Board of Pharmacy Newsletter

H12 (Session Law 2011-240) requires all “retailers” to submit required information to the National Precursor Log Exchange – or NPLEx (not to be confused with NAPLEX^®) – an electronic tracking system for pseudoephedrine sales administered by the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators. The statute specifies that this electronic system shall be used only if it “is available to retailers in the State without a charge for accessing the system.”

As pharmacists know, the pseudoephedrine sales statutes are administered by the Drug Control Unit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, not the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. In an effort to assist that unit, however, the Board will be passing along information about implementation of this statute by electronic mail to all pharmacies in the state. Pharmacist managers should watch their Board-identified electronic mail account for further information.

This statute is effective January 1, 2012.