Reading 5 Flashcards
What is the PPPA and why was it created?
- Made to combat child poisoning - UNDER 5 YO
Who enforces the PPPA?
- The Consumer Product Safety Commission [CPSC]`
What does the PPPA require to happen?
- ONLY meant to prevent poisoning in kids YOUNGER than 5 years old
What is Speacial Packaging?
- A package that is hard for kids under 5 to open BUT easy for adults to open
Known as Child Resistant Packaging
How is a package classifed as “Child Resistant”
- 90% of adults should open
- 85% on kids <5yo shouldnt open within 5 mins
- 80% of kids cant open after shown how
What are the drugs that require Special Packaging?
- Controlls, Rx, OTC after 2002, Samples
- ALL THAT COME IN ORAL DOSAGE FORM
What happens when a pharmacist fails to dispense a medication in a CRC?
- Misbranded
What products do not have requirements for Special Packaging?
- Non-Oral [Nasal Spray, Eye Drops, Ointments…]
- Waviers
What are waviers and what are the different types?
- Giving up rights on purpose
- Prescription-by-Prescription, & Blanket
What is a Prescription-by-Prescription Wavier?
- From Prescribers on Rx-by-Rx basis, for that specfic Rx
What is a Blanket Wavier?
- From Patients or Patient Representatives for ALL Rx
When should the Manufacturer be responsilbe for making sure something is made or dispensed in speacil packging?
- They dont care
- Really when its like a unit-dose medication
- Maybe for when speacial packaging makes it harder to get
When the is Pharmacist responsible for dispensing in Speacial Packaging?
- ALWAYS unless told not too
What are the different types of labels?
- Package Insert
- Patient Labeling
- Consumer Medication Information
- Patient Package Insert
- Medications Guides
- Proposed Patient Medication Info
- Nonpresription Labeling
What is a Package Insert and what are some of the things that the Package Insert must have?
- Drug Monograph
- Provides info to Health Providers about the drug
- NO PI = Misbranded\
- NO Cat A, B, C, D, X anymore