ARC 1960C
PHARMACY BOARD[657]
Notice of Termination
Pursuant to the authority of Iowa Code section 147.76, the Board of Pharmacy terminates the rule making initiated by its Notice of Intended Action published in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin on December 10, 2014, as ARC 1791C, proposing to amend Chapter 3, “Pharmacy Technicians,” Chapter 6, “General Pharmacy Practice,” and Chapter 7, “Hospital Pharmacy Practice”; to rescind Chapter 13, “Sterile Compounding Practices”; and to rescind Chapter 20, “Pharmacy Compounding Practices,” and adopt a new Chapter 20, “Compounding Practices,” Iowa Administrative Code.
The Notice proposed to combine the requirements currently in Chapters 13 and 20 for the compounding of drug products into a single chapter, Chapter 20, which would fully adopt national minimum practice standards for compounding found in General Chapters 795 and 797 of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP). The amendments would have also incorporated new federal regulations as established in the Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013, also known as the Compounding Quality Act, with respect to compounding and outsourcing facilities. Current Chapter 13 would have been rescinded and reserved.
The Board is terminating the rule making commenced in ARC 1791C based on comments and objections received from members of the public, health care professional organizations, and the pharmaceutical industry. The majority of the comments received objected to including the addition of flavoring to a drug product as a function constituting compounding. As a result of the comments received, the Board will incorporate changes and clarifications into the originally proposed amendments and publish a new Notice of Intended Action at a later time.
After analysis and review of this rule making, no impact on jobs has been found.