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FDA Warns About Compounded Versions of Ozempic and Wegovy

XTalks

During a drug shortage, compounders might be allowed to prepare a compounded version of the drug provided they meet specific requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act. mg and 1 mg doses will be available to wholesalers for distribution to retail pharmacies. mg and 2.4 mg doses of Wegovy.

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State Drug Importation Bills Just Got More Personal in California

Pharmacy Checkers

The bill not only calls for wholesale importation from Canada – but also personal drug importation from Canada and other countries, subject to Section 804 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The channel of importation is confined to a wholesaler in Canada exporting FDA-approved drugs to a state-licensed wholesaler in the United States.

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The Wholesaling Prohibition (Potentially) Demystified? FDA’s Take on Supply Chains for Section 503B Outsourcing Facilities

FDA Law Blog

Palmer — Last week FDA published a long-awaited Draft Guidance for outsourcing facilities addressing the Prohibition on Wholesaling Under Section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Draft Guidance). See 21 U.S.C. 353b(a). Section II at 2. Draft Guidance III.B.2(e)

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FDA opens door to expressly permit personal drug importation, and yet…

Pharmacy Checkers

Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration (HHS/FDA), the door has been opened to formally allow personal drug importation, but the proposed parameters of the RFP ignore greater opportunities, savings and the law itself. That is pursuant to Section 804 of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

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Section 804’s Conflicting Standards for Personal vs. Wholesale Drug Importation and Why it Matters

Pharmacy Checkers

The FDA has drafted a proposed rule to facilitate wholesale importation of lower-cost drugs from Canada, pursuant to Section 804 of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. J(2) stipulates that the FDA can permit personal imports with specific waivers or by general regulation. Those pharmacies aren’t rogue. That is a problem.

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Trump Administration Opens Door to Drug Importation Programs

Pharmacy Checkers

The reality is that Americans have already been importing medications from foreign pharmacies because of substantially lower prices for many years, and the law is currently flexible to allow them to do so. The first proposed channel of prescription drug importation is already codified in law: Section 804 of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

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Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Importation of Prescription Drugs, FDA-2019-N-5711, 84 Fed. Reg. 70796”

Pharmacy Checkers

Founded in 2002, and launching its website in 2003, PharmacyChecker provides consumers with online pharmacy verification and comparative drug price information to help them make the best decisions for themselves and their families on how to afford prescription drugs. counterparts. Part J is written in three sections.