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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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Hitting Pause on Criticism of the FDA, Just for Today

Pharmacy Checkers

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is just one agency out of the many that make up the United States Department of Health and Human Services and, from PharmacyChecker’s relatively small (non-regulatory) role of helping verify online pharmacies to protect public health, I’ve learned just how insanely massive its mandate is.

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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.

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The Drug Reimportation Law Curtails Wholesale Not Personal Importation: Who Knew?

Pharmacy Checkers

On behalf of Prescription Justice, I submitted comments to the FDA in response to its request for public comments on its draft guidance called: “Importation of Certain FDA-Approved Human Prescription Drugs, Including Biological Products, under Section 801(d)(1)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Draft Guidance for Industry.”.

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Biden “Promoting Competition” Executive Order Falls In Behind Drug Importation

FDA Law Blog

The Order calls on FDA “to reduce the cost of covered products to the American consumer without imposing additional risk to public health and safety, [by working] with States and Indian Tribes that propose to develop section 804 Importation Programs.” See our blog post on the rule.)

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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.