Posts Tagged ‘veterinarian’
Maine’s Prescription Monitoring Program and Veterinarians
Maine State Senator Jim Hamper of Lincoln County has proposed a controversial bill (LD 1730) that would remove veterinarians from the Maine’s Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program (Prescription Monitoring Program). Hamper is proposing to change the definition of ‘Prescriber,” under the Prescription Monitoring Program which in its current form, includes veterinarians – ‘“Prescriber” means a licensed…
Read MoreLouisiana Board of Pharmacy Addresses the Compounding of Veterinarian Only Drugs for Office Use
Earlier this year, the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy (Louisiana Board) exercised the emergency provision of the Louisiana Administrative Procedure Act (R.S. 49:9.53.B), to amend its rules governing the compounding of drugs by pharmacies and restored the capability for pharmacies to compound drugs intended for the administration by veterinarians without the necessity of a patient-specific prescription.…
Read MoreVeterinary Compounding: For "Office Use"
As the veterinary compounding market continues to grow and expand, new legal issues arise and, in some instances, the current federal and/or state laws may be in conflict with one another or they may not provide clear guidance on specific topics. Veterinary compounding for ‘office use,’ where a medication is compounded and then sold to…
Read MoreVeterinary Compounding and the Drug Quality and Security Act
The Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) with respect to human drug compounding. As discussed previously on the Baer Law Blog, Title I of the DQSA amended Section 503A of the FDCA and added Section 503B. Sections 503A and 503B address exemptions from certain FDA requirements…
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