Reading 6 Flashcards
What is the PDMA?
- Helped divert Rx drugs/samples from normal distribution
What are the different area of the PDMA?
- Reimportation
- Preferentail Pricing
- Samples and Coupons
What is Reimportation within pharmacy law?
- Prohibits it 8 UNLESS by FDA
- Bans importation of american made drugs from other countries
What made Reimportation illegal?
- American drugs from other countries cost less; so people would buy from them, bring it to the US, then sell for more
What are the two situation where Reimportation is LEGAL
- Manufacturer move supply to sell in US
- Drug needed for emergency use
What is Perferential Pricing?
- Bans the sale, purchase or trade of Rx drugs purchased at lower prices [by hopsital…]
What is important to know about Samples and Coupons in the PDMA?
- Prohibits the sale, purchase or trade of Samples or Coupons
- Practitioners need to ask in writing
- Since free CANNOT make money off them
Samples: promote the sale of a drug
Who is able to have Samples or Coupons?
- RETAIL cant have them
- HOSPITAL can
What is the final part of the PDMA?
- Whistleblower: basically awarding people for turning others in
- Snitch
What is the Federal Anti-Tamper Act?
- ## Act helps to prevent tampering
What are the FIVE crimes that the Federal Anti-Tampering Act created?
- Tampering with LABEL
- TAINTING Product
- FALSE INFO that prodcut is tainted
- THREATENING to tamper
- CONSPIRING to tamper
What is a Tamper-Evident Packaging?
- Packaging that doesnt stop someone from Tampering, just shows that it has been tampered
What are some of the requirements that shows that it is a Tamper-Evident Package?
- Must have barriers that show if its been tampered
- Must have a unreplicatable design
- Possilbly a picture on the barrier
NOT MET = Adulteration or Misbranding or Both
What are some of the design features assoicated with Tamper-Evident Packaging?
- Wrappers, Cartons, Breakable Caps, Mouth Seals, Blister Pack…
- SEAL CAPSULES if used capsules
What is the DSHEA?
- Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
- Alterd FDA authority over dietary supplements
DIET SUPPLEMENTS = FOOD not drugs