Gray market companies operating outside of the legitimate drug distribution chain buy and sell drugs in shortage at exorbitant prices, indicates a report of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In an investigation of the issue, staff examined...

The Center for Pharmacy Practice Accreditation (CPPA) seeks review and comment on the newly released draft standards for community pharmacy practice accreditation. The draft standards will serve as the basis for community pharmacy practice accreditation. They are designed to facilitate...

The Minnesota Board of Pharmacy adopted a definition of limited service pharmacy, which reads “A pharmacy to which the board may assign a restricted license to perform a narrow range of the activities that constitute the practice of pharmacy.” Currently,...

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed into law HB 1009, on February 22, 2012, that repeals the Poison Permit and the Non-Prescription Drug Permit from the South Dakota laws and rules. The adoption of the law followed a review by...

Three US Congressional committees are investigating schemes in which individuals obtain pharmacy licenses only to use them as a means for purchasing cancer drugs and other medications that are sold to gray market wholesalers, rather than dispensed to patients. “Documents...

Published in the May 2009 Missouri Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Beginning January 1, 2009, Missouri law requires that any business entity that engages in retail sales or pays taxable wages to employees must provide a “no tax due letter” from...

Published in the February 2009 Oregon State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter License fee increases are being considered for several of the Board’s license categories for the upcoming 2009-2011 budget cycle. No one is fond of the idea of imposing increased...

Reprinted from the July 2008 New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Newsletter. The application for the registration of out-of-state pharmacies has been posted on the Board of Pharmacy Web site at www.state.nj.us/oag/ca/medical/pharmacy.htm. NJAC 13:39-4.19(a), adopted November 19, 2007, states, “Any pharmacy...

Published in the October 2006 Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter OAC 535:25-3-7 requires that the new owner of a pharmacy obtain a new pharmacy license if a pharmacy changes ownership. A change of ownership occurs when: the original owner(s)...