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1-House Engrossed Senate Bill pharmacy board; virtual manufacturers State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024 CHAPTER 234 SENATE BILL 1234 An Act amending section 32-1901, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 32, chapter 18, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 32-1980; relating to the Arizona state board of pharmacy. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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6667 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 32-1901, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE32-1901. Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administer" means directly applying a controlled substance, prescription-only drug, dangerous drug or narcotic drug, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorized agent or the patient or research subject at the direction of the practitioner. 2. "Advertisement" means all representations that are disseminated in any manner or by any means other than by labeling for the purpose of inducing, or that are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of drugs, devices, poisons or hazardous substances. 3. "Advisory letter" means a nondisciplinary letter to notify a licensee or permittee that either: (a) While there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the board believes that continuation of the activities that led to the investigation may result in further board action against the licensee or permittee. (b) The violation is a minor or technical violation that is not of sufficient merit to warrant disciplinary action. (c) While the licensee or permittee has demonstrated substantial compliance through rehabilitation, remediation or reeducation that has mitigated the need for disciplinary action, the board believes that repeating the activities that led to the investigation may result in further board action against the licensee or permittee. 4. "Antiseptic", if a drug is represented as such on its label, means a representation that it is a germicide, except in the case of a drug purporting to be, or represented as, an antiseptic for inhibitory use as a wet dressing, ointment or dusting powder or other use that involves prolonged contact with the body. 5. "Authorized officers of the law" means legally empowered peace officers, compliance officers of the board of pharmacy and agents of the division of narcotics enforcement and criminal intelligence of the department of public safety. 6. "Automated prescription-dispensing kiosk" means a mechanical system that is operated as an extension of a pharmacy, that maintains all transaction information within the pharmacy operating system, that is separately permitted from the pharmacy and that performs operations that either: (a) Accept a prescription or refill order, store prepackaged or repackaged medications, label and dispense patient-specific prescriptions and provide counseling on new or refilled prescriptions. (b) Dispense or deliver a prescription or refill that has been prepared by or on behalf of the pharmacy that oversees the automated prescription-dispensing kiosk. 7. "Board" or "board of pharmacy" means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. 8. "Certificate of composition" means a list of a product's ingredients. 9. "Certificate of free sale" means a document that authenticates a product that is generally and freely sold in domestic or international channels of trade. 10. "Color additive" means a material that either: (a) Is any dye, pigment or other substance that is made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice or that is extracted, isolated or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity, from any vegetable, animal, mineral or other source. (b) If added or applied to a drug, or to the human body or any part of the human body, is capable of imparting color, except that color additive does not include any material that has been or may be exempted under the federal act. Color includes black, white and intermediate grays. 11. "Compounding" means preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug by a pharmacist or an intern or pharmacy technician under the pharmacist's supervision, for the purpose of dispensing to a patient based on a valid prescription order. Compounding includes preparing drugs in anticipation of prescription orders prepared on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns and preparing drugs as an incident to research, teaching or chemical analysis or for administration by a medical practitioner to the medical practitioner's patient and not for sale or dispensing. Compounding does not include preparing commercially available products from bulk compounds or preparing drugs for sale to pharmacies, practitioners or entities for the purpose of dispensing or distribution. 12. "Compressed medical gas distributor" means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to distribute compressed medical gases to compressed medical gas suppliers and other entities that are registered, licensed or permitted to use, administer or distribute compressed medical gases. 13. "Compressed medical gases" means gases and liquid oxygen that a compressed medical gas distributor or manufacturer has labeled in compliance with federal law. 14. "Compressed medical gas order" means an order for compressed medical gases that is issued by a medical practitioner. 15. "Compressed medical gas supplier" means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to supply compressed medical gases pursuant to a compressed medical gas order and only to the consumer or the patient. 16. "Controlled substance" means a drug, substance or immediate precursor that is identified, defined or listed in title 36, chapter 27, article 2 or the rules adopted pursuant to title 36, chapter 27, article 2. 17. "Corrosive" means any substance that when it comes in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of the tissue by chemical action. 18. "Counterfeit drug" means a drug that, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint, number or device, or any likeness of these, of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser other than the person that in fact manufactured, distributed or dispensed that drug. 19. "Dangerous drug" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3401. 20. "Day" means a business day. 21. "Decree of censure" means an official action that is taken by the board and that may include a requirement for restitution of fees to a patient or consumer. 22. "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another whether or not there is an agency relationship. 23. "Deputy director" means a pharmacist who is employed by the board and selected by the executive director to perform duties as prescribed by the executive director. 24. "Device", except as used in paragraph 18 of this section, section 32-1965, paragraph 4 and section 32-1967, subsection A, paragraph 15 and subsection C, means an instrument, apparatus or contrivance, including its components, parts and accessories, including all such items under the federal act, that is intended either: (a) For use in diagnosing, curing, mitigating, treating or preventing disease in the human body or other animals. (b) To affect the structure or any function of the human body or other animals. 25. "Director" means the director of the division of narcotics enforcement and criminal investigation of the department of public safety. 26. "Direct supervision of a pharmacist" means that the pharmacist is present. If relating to the sale of certain items, direct supervision of a pharmacist means that a pharmacist determines the legitimacy or advisability of a proposed purchase of those items. 27. "Dispense" means to deliver to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding as necessary to prepare for that delivery. 28. "Dispenser" means a practitioner who dispenses. 29. "Distribute" means to deliver, other than by administering or dispensing. 30. "Distributor" means a person who distributes. 31. "Drug" means: (a) Articles that are recognized, or for which standards or specifications are prescribed, in the official compendium. (b) Articles that are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in the human body or other animals. (c) Articles other than food that are intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body or other animals. (d) Articles that are intended for use as a component of any articles specified in subdivision (a), (b) or (c) of this paragraph but does not include devices or their components, parts or accessories. 32. "Drug enforcement administration" means the drug enforcement administration of the United States department of justice or its successor agency. 33. "Drug or device manufacturing" means producing, preparing, propagating or processing a drug or device, either directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of substances or labeling or relabeling of its container and promoting and marketing the same. Drug or device manufacturing does not include compounding. 34. "Durable medical equipment" means technologically sophisticated medical equipment as prescribed by the board in rule that a patient or consumer may use in a home or residence and that may be a prescription-only device. 35. "Durable medical equipment distributor": (a) Means a person that stores or distributes durable medical equipment other than to the patient or consumer. (b) Includes a virtual durable medical equipment distributor as prescribed in rule by the board. 36. "Durable medical equipment supplier": (a) Means a person that sells, leases or supplies durable medical equipment to the patient or consumer. (b) Includes a virtual durable medical equipment supplier as prescribed in rule by the board. 37. "Economic poison" means any substance that alone, in chemical combination with or in formulation with one or more other substances is a pesticide within the meaning of the laws of this state or the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act and that is used in producing, storing or transporting raw agricultural commodities. 38. "Enteral feeding" means nourishment that is provided by means of a tube inserted into the stomach or intestine. 39. "Established name", with respect to a drug or ingredient of a drug, means any of the following: (a) The applicable official name. (b) If there is no such name and the drug or ingredient is an article recognized in an official compendium, the official title in an official compendium. (c) If neither subdivision (a) nor (b) of this paragraph applies, the common or usual name of the drug. 40. "Executive director" means the executive director of the board of pharmacy. 41. "Federal act" means the federal laws and regulations that pertain to drugs, devices, poisons and hazardous substances and that are official at the time any drug, device, poison or hazardous substance is affected by this chapter. 42. "Full-service wholesale permittee": (a) Means a permittee who may distribute prescription-only drugs and devices, controlled substances and over-the-counter drugs and devices to pharmacies or other legal outlets from a place devoted in whole or in part to wholesaling these items. (b) Includes a virtual wholesaler as defined in rule by the board. 43. "Good manufacturing practice" means a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards and covering all aspects of design, monitoring and control of manufacturing processes and facilities to ensure that products do not pose any risk to the consumer or public. 44. "Highly toxic" means any substance that falls within any of the following categories: (a) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, at a single dose of fifty milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered. (b) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, if inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmospheric concentration of two hundred parts per million by volume or less of gas or vapor or two milligrams per liter by volume or less of mist or dust, provided the concentration is likely to be encountered by humans if the substance is used in any reasonably foreseeable manner. (c) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more rabbits tested in a dosage of two hundred milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, if administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for twenty-four hours or less. If the board finds that available data on human experience with any substance indicate results different from those obtained on animals in the dosages or concentrations prescribed in this paragraph, the human data shall take precedence. 45. "Hospital" means any institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured that is approved and licensed as a hospital by the department of health services. 46. "Intern" means a pharmacy intern. 47. "Internship" means the practical, experiential, hands-on training of a pharmacy intern under the supervision of a preceptor. 48. "Irritant" means any substance, other than a corrosive, that on immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce a local inflammatory reaction. 49. "Jurisprudence examination" means a board-approved pharmacy law examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or another board-approved pharmacy law examination. 50. "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate container of any article that, unless easily legible through the outside wrapper or container, also appears on the outside wrapper or container of the article's retail package. For the purposes of this paragraph, the immediate container does not include package liners. 51. "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter that either: (a) Is on any article or any of its containers or wrappers. (b) Accompanies that article. 52. "Letter of reprimand" means a disciplinary letter that is a public document issued by the board and that informs a licensee or permittee that the licensee's or permittee's conduct violates state or federal law and may require the board to monitor the licensee or permittee. 53. "Limited service pharmacy" means a pharmacy that is approved by the board to practice a limited segment of pharmacy as indicated by the permit issued by the board. 54. "Manufacture" or "manufacturer": (a) Means every person who prepares, derives, produces, compounds, processes, packages or repackages or labels any drug in a place, other than a pharmacy, that is devoted to manufacturing the drug. (b) Includes a virtual manufacturer as defined in rule by the board. 55. "Marijuana" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3401. 56. "Medical practitioner" means any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic medicine, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian or other person who is licensed and authorized by law to use and prescribe drugs and devices to treat sick and injured human beings or animals or to diagnose or prevent sickness in human beings or animals in this state or any state, territory or district of the United States. 57. "Medication order" means a written or verbal order from a medical practitioner or that person's authorized agent to administer a drug or device. 58. "Narcotic drug" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3401. 59. "New drug" means either: (a) Any drug of which the composition is such that the drug is not generally recognized among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of drugs as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the labeling. (b) Any drug of which the composition is such that the drug, as a result of investigations to determine its safety and effectiveness for use under such conditions, has become so recognized, but that has not, other than in the investigations, been used to a material extent or for a material time under those conditions. 60. "Nonprescription drug" or "over-the-counter drug" means any nonnarcotic medicine or drug that may be sold without a prescription and that is prepackaged and labeled for use by the consumer in accordance with the requirements of the laws of this state and federal law. Nonprescription drug does not include: (a) A drug that is primarily advertised and promoted professionally to medical practitioners and pharmacists by manufacturers or primary distributors. (b) A controlled substance. (c) A drug that is required to bear a label that states "Rx only". (d) A drug that is intended for human use by hypodermic injection. 61. "Nonprescription drug wholesale permittee": (a) Means a permittee who may distribute only over-the-counter drugs and devices to pharmacies or other lawful outlets from a place devoted in whole or in part to wholesaling these items. (b) Includes a virtual wholesaler as defined in rule by the board. 62. "Notice" means personal service or the mailing of a copy of the notice by certified mail and email addressed either to the person at the person's latest address of record in the board office or to the person and the person's attorney using the most recent information provided to the board in the board's licensing database. 63. "Nutritional supplementation" means vitamins, minerals and caloric supplementation. Nutritional supplementation does not include medication or drugs. 64. "Official compendium" means the latest revision of the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary or any current supplement. 65. "Other jurisdiction" means one of the other forty-nine states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory of the United States of America. 66. "Package" means a receptacle that is defined or described in the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary as adopted by the board. 67. "Packaging" means the act or process of placing a drug item or device in a container for the purpose or intent of dispensing or distributing the item or device to another. 68. "Parenteral nutrition" means intravenous feeding that provides an individual with fluids and essential nutrients the individual needs while the individual is unable to receive adequate fluids or feedings by mouth or by enteral feeding. 69. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation and association, and their duly authorized agents. 70. "Pharmaceutical care" means the provision of drug therapy and other pharmaceutical patient care services. 71. "Pharmacist" means an individual who is currently licensed by the board to practice the profession of pharmacy in this state. 72. "Pharmacist in charge" means the pharmacist who is responsible to the board for a licensed establishment's compliance with the laws and administrative rules of this state and of the federal government pertaining to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacturing of drugs and the distribution of drugs and devices. 73. "Pharmacist licensure examination" means a board-approved examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or any other board-approved pharmacist licensure examination. 74. "Pharmacy" means: (a) Any place where drugs, devices, poisons or related hazardous substances are offered for sale at retail or where prescription orders are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. (b) Any place that displays on or in the place or that displays a sign on the place the words "pharmaceutical chemist", "apothecary", "druggist", "pharmacy", "drugstore", "drugs" or "drug sundries", any combination of these words, or any words of similar meaning in any language. (c) Any place where the characteristic symbol of pharmacy or the characteristic prescription sign "Rx" is exhibited. (d) Any building or other structure or portion of a building or other structure that is leased, used or controlled by a permittee to conduct the business authorized by the board at the address specified on the permit issued to the permittee. (e) A remote dispensing site pharmacy. (f) A remote hospital-site pharmacy. (g) A satellite pharmacy. 75. "Pharmacy intern" means a person who has all of the qualifications and experience prescribed in section 32-1923. 76. "Pharmacy technician" means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. 77. "Pharmacy technician trainee" means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. 78. "Poison" or "hazardous substance" includes any of the following if intended and suitable for household use or use by children: (a) Any substance that, according to standard works on medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy or toxicology, if applied to, introduced into or developed within the body in relatively small quantities by its inherent action uniformly produces serious bodily injury, disease or death. (b) A toxic substance. (c) A highly toxic substance. (d) A corrosive substance. (e) An irritant. (f) A strong sensitizer. (g) A mixture of any of the substances described in this paragraph, if the substance or mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children. (h) A substance that is designated by the board to be a poison or hazardous substance. This subdivision does not apply to radioactive substances, economic poisons subject to the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act or the state pesticide act, foods, drugs and cosmetics subject to state laws or the federal act or substances intended for use as fuels when stored in containers and used in the heating, cooking or refrigeration system of a house. This subdivision applies to any substance or article that is not itself an economic poison within the meaning of the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act or the state pesticide act, but that is a poison or hazardous substance within the meaning of this paragraph by reason of bearing or containing an economic poison or hazardous substance. 79. "Practice of pharmacy": (a) Means furnishing the following health care services as a medical professional: (i) Interpreting, evaluating and dispensing prescription orders in the patient's best interests. (ii) Compounding drugs pursuant to or in anticipation of a prescription order. (iii) Labeling drugs and devices in compliance with state and federal requirements. (iv) Participating in drug selection and drug utilization reviews, drug administration, drug or drug-related research and drug therapy monitoring or management. (v) Providing patient counseling necessary to provide pharmaceutical care. (vi) Properly and safely storing drugs and devices in anticipation of dispensing. (vii) Maintaining required records of drugs and devices. (viii) Offering or performing acts, services, operations or transactions that are necessary to conduct, operate, manage and control a pharmacy. (ix) Providing patient care services pursuant to a collaborative practice agreement with a provider as outlined in section 32-1970. (x) Initiating and administering immunizations or vaccines pursuant to section 32-1974. (b) Does not include initiating a prescription order for any medication, drug or other substance used to induce or cause a medication abortion as defined in section 36-2151. 80. "Practitioner" means any physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator or other person who is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state, or any pharmacy, hospital or other institution that is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. 81. "Preceptor" means a pharmacist who is serving as the practical instructor of an intern and who complies with section 32-1923. 82. "Precursor chemical" means a substance that is: (a) The principal compound that is commonly used or that is produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. (b) Listed in section 13-3401, paragraph 26 or 27. 83. "Prescription" means either a prescription order or a prescription medication. 84. "Prescription medication" means any drug, including label and container according to context, that is dispensed pursuant to a prescription order. 85. "Prescription-only device" includes: (a) Any device that is limited by the federal act to use under the supervision of a medical practitioner. (b) Any device required by the federal act to bear on its label essentially the legend "Rx only". 86. "Prescription-only drug" does not include a controlled substance but does include: (a) Any drug that because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful effect, the method of its use, or the collateral measures necessary to its use is not generally recognized among experts, qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety and efficacy, as safe for use except by or under the supervision of a medical practitioner. (b) Any drug that is limited by an approved new drug application under the federal act or section 32-1962 to use under the supervision of a medical practitioner. (c) Every potentially harmful drug, the labeling of which does not bear or contain full and adequate directions for use by the consumer. (d) Any drug, other than a controlled substance, that is required by the federal act to bear on its label the legend "Rx only". 87. "Prescription order" means any of the following: (a) An order to a pharmacist for drugs or devices that is issued and signed by a duly licensed medical practitioner in the authorized course of the practitioner's professional practice. (b) An order that is transmitted to a pharmacist through word of mouth, telephone or other means of communication directed by that medical practitioner. Prescription orders received by word of mouth, telephone or other means of communication shall be maintained by the pharmacist pursuant to section 32-1964, and the record so made by the pharmacist constitutes the original prescription order to be dispensed by the pharmacist. This paragraph does not alter or affect laws of this state or any federal act requiring a written prescription order. (c) An order that is initiated by a pharmacist pursuant to a collaborative practice agreement with a provider as outlined in section 32-1970, or immunizations or vaccines administered by a pharmacist pursuant to section 32-1974. (d) A diet order or an order for enteral feeding, nutritional supplementation or parenteral nutrition that is initiated by a registered dietitian or other qualified nutrition professional in a hospital pursuant to section 36-416. 88. "Professionally incompetent" means: (a) Incompetence based on a variety of factors, including a lack of sufficient pharmaceutical knowledge or skills or experience to a degree likely to endanger the health of patients. (b) When considered with other indications of professional incompetence, a pharmacist or pharmacy intern who fails to obtain a passing score on a board-approved pharmacist licensure examination or a pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician trainee who fails to obtain a passing score on a board-approved pharmacy technician licensure examination. 89. "Radioactive substance" means a substance that emits ionizing radiation. 90. "Remote dispensing site pharmacy" means a pharmacy where a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern prepares, compounds or dispenses prescription medications under remote supervision by a pharmacist. 91. "Remote hospital-site pharmacy" means a pharmacy located in a satellite facility that operates under the license issued by the department of health services to the hospital of which it is a satellite. 92. "Remote supervision by a pharmacist" means that a pharmacist directs and controls the actions of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns through the use of audio and visual technology. 93. "Revocation" or "revoke" means the official cancellation of a license, permit, registration or other approval authorized by the board for a period of two years unless otherwise specified by the board. A request or new application for reinstatement may be presented to the board for review before the conclusion of the specified revocation period upon review of the executive director. 94. "Safely engage in employment duties" means that a permittee or the permittee's employee is able to safely engage in employment duties related to the manufacture, sale, distribution or dispensing of drugs, devices, poisons, hazardous substances, controlled substances or precursor chemicals. 95. "Satellite facility" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36-422. 96. "Satellite pharmacy" means a work area located within a hospital or on a hospital campus that is not separated by other commercial property or residential property, that is under the direction of a pharmacist, that is a remote extension of a centrally licensed hospital pharmacy, that is owned by and dependent on the centrally licensed hospital pharmacy for administrative control, staffing and drug procurement and that is not required to be separately permitted. 97. "Symbol" means the characteristic symbols that have historically identified pharmacy, including show globes and mortar and pestle, and the sign "Rx". 98. "Third-party logistics provider" means an entity that provides or coordinates warehousing or other logistics services for the following items, but that does not take ownership of the items, and that distributes those items as directed by a manufacturer, wholesaler, dispenser or durable medical equipment supplier that is permitted by the board: (a) Narcotic drugs or other controlled substances. (b) Dangerous drugs as defined in section 13-3401. (c) Prescription-only drugs and devices. (d) Nonprescription drugs and devices. (e) Precursor chemicals. (f) Regulated chemicals as defined in section 13-3401. 99. "Toxic substance" means a substance, other than a radioactive substance, that has the capacity to produce injury or illness in humans through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any body surface. 100. "Ultimate user" means a person who lawfully possesses a drug or controlled substance for that person's own use, for the use of a member of that person's household or for administering to an animal owned by that person or by a member of that person's household. 101. "Virtual manufacturer" means an entity that contracts for the manufacture of a drug or device, including a private label distributor as defined in 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 207.1, and that meets all of the following: (a) Owns either: (i) The new drug application or abbreviated new drug application number as defined by the United States food and drug administration for a drug. (ii) The unique device identification number as defined by the United States food and drug administration for a prescription device. (b) Is not involved in the physical manufacture of the drug or device. (c) Contracts with a United States food and drug administration registered manufacturing entity for the physical manufacture of the drug or device.END_STATUTE Sec. 2. Title 32, chapter 18, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-1980, to read: START_STATUTE32-1980. Virtual manufacturers; oversight and contracting requirements A. A virtual manufacturer located in this state or located in another jurisdiction that is responsible for the shipment of prescription drugs or devices into this state shall make professionally reasonable efforts to ensure that the United States food and drug administration registered manufacturing entity for the physical manufacture of a prescription drug or prescription device complies with current good manufacturing practices as described in 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 210, 211, 212, 314, 808, 812 or 820, as applicable. B. A virtual manufacturer of prescription drugs shall contract with a drug manufacturer that is permitted by this state. END_STATUTE
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8889 4. "Antiseptic", if a drug is represented as such on its label, means a representation that it is a germicide, except in the case of a drug purporting to be, or represented as, an antiseptic for inhibitory use as a wet dressing, ointment or dusting powder or other use that involves prolonged contact with the body.
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106107 (a) Is any dye, pigment or other substance that is made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice or that is extracted, isolated or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity, from any vegetable, animal, mineral or other source.
107108
108109 (b) If added or applied to a drug, or to the human body or any part of the human body, is capable of imparting color, except that color additive does not include any material that has been or may be exempted under the federal act. Color includes black, white and intermediate grays.
109110
110111 11. "Compounding" means preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug by a pharmacist or an intern or pharmacy technician under the pharmacist's supervision, for the purpose of dispensing to a patient based on a valid prescription order. Compounding includes preparing drugs in anticipation of prescription orders prepared on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns and preparing drugs as an incident to research, teaching or chemical analysis or for administration by a medical practitioner to the medical practitioner's patient and not for sale or dispensing. Compounding does not include preparing commercially available products from bulk compounds or preparing drugs for sale to pharmacies, practitioners or entities for the purpose of dispensing or distribution.
111112
112113 12. "Compressed medical gas distributor" means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to distribute compressed medical gases to compressed medical gas suppliers and other entities that are registered, licensed or permitted to use, administer or distribute compressed medical gases.
113114
114115 13. "Compressed medical gases" means gases and liquid oxygen that a compressed medical gas distributor or manufacturer has labeled in compliance with federal law.
115116
116117 14. "Compressed medical gas order" means an order for compressed medical gases that is issued by a medical practitioner.
117118
118119 15. "Compressed medical gas supplier" means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to supply compressed medical gases pursuant to a compressed medical gas order and only to the consumer or the patient.
119120
120121 16. "Controlled substance" means a drug, substance or immediate precursor that is identified, defined or listed in title 36, chapter 27, article 2 or the rules adopted pursuant to title 36, chapter 27, article 2.
121122
122123 17. "Corrosive" means any substance that when it comes in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of the tissue by chemical action.
123124
124125 18. "Counterfeit drug" means a drug that, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint, number or device, or any likeness of these, of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser other than the person that in fact manufactured, distributed or dispensed that drug.
125126
126127 19. "Dangerous drug" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3401.
127128
128129 20. "Day" means a business day.
129130
130131 21. "Decree of censure" means an official action that is taken by the board and that may include a requirement for restitution of fees to a patient or consumer.
131132
132133 22. "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another whether or not there is an agency relationship.
133134
134135 23. "Deputy director" means a pharmacist who is employed by the board and selected by the executive director to perform duties as prescribed by the executive director.
135136
136137 24. "Device", except as used in paragraph 18 of this section, section 32-1965, paragraph 4 and section 32-1967, subsection A, paragraph 15 and subsection C, means an instrument, apparatus or contrivance, including its components, parts and accessories, including all such items under the federal act, that is intended either:
137138
138139 (a) For use in diagnosing, curing, mitigating, treating or preventing disease in the human body or other animals.
139140
140141 (b) To affect the structure or any function of the human body or other animals.
141142
142143 25. "Director" means the director of the division of narcotics enforcement and criminal investigation of the department of public safety.
143144
144145 26. "Direct supervision of a pharmacist" means that the pharmacist is present. If relating to the sale of certain items, direct supervision of a pharmacist means that a pharmacist determines the legitimacy or advisability of a proposed purchase of those items.
145146
146147 27. "Dispense" means to deliver to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding as necessary to prepare for that delivery.
147148
148149 28. "Dispenser" means a practitioner who dispenses.
149150
150151 29. "Distribute" means to deliver, other than by administering or dispensing.
151152
152153 30. "Distributor" means a person who distributes.
153154
154155 31. "Drug" means:
155156
156157 (a) Articles that are recognized, or for which standards or specifications are prescribed, in the official compendium.
157158
158159 (b) Articles that are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in the human body or other animals.
159160
160161 (c) Articles other than food that are intended to affect the structure or any function of the human body or other animals.
161162
162163 (d) Articles that are intended for use as a component of any articles specified in subdivision (a), (b) or (c) of this paragraph but does not include devices or their components, parts or accessories.
163164
164165 32. "Drug enforcement administration" means the drug enforcement administration of the United States department of justice or its successor agency.
165166
166167 33. "Drug or device manufacturing" means producing, preparing, propagating or processing a drug or device, either directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of substances or labeling or relabeling of its container and promoting and marketing the same. Drug or device manufacturing does not include compounding.
167168
168169 34. "Durable medical equipment" means technologically sophisticated medical equipment as prescribed by the board in rule that a patient or consumer may use in a home or residence and that may be a prescription-only device.
169170
170171 35. "Durable medical equipment distributor":
171172
172173 (a) Means a person that stores or distributes durable medical equipment other than to the patient or consumer.
173174
174175 (b) Includes a virtual durable medical equipment distributor as prescribed in rule by the board.
175176
176177 36. "Durable medical equipment supplier":
177178
178179 (a) Means a person that sells, leases or supplies durable medical equipment to the patient or consumer.
179180
180181 (b) Includes a virtual durable medical equipment supplier as prescribed in rule by the board.
181182
182183 37. "Economic poison" means any substance that alone, in chemical combination with or in formulation with one or more other substances is a pesticide within the meaning of the laws of this state or the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act and that is used in producing, storing or transporting raw agricultural commodities.
183184
184185 38. "Enteral feeding" means nourishment that is provided by means of a tube inserted into the stomach or intestine.
185186
186187 39. "Established name", with respect to a drug or ingredient of a drug, means any of the following:
187188
188189 (a) The applicable official name.
189190
190191 (b) If there is no such name and the drug or ingredient is an article recognized in an official compendium, the official title in an official compendium.
191192
192193 (c) If neither subdivision (a) nor (b) of this paragraph applies, the common or usual name of the drug.
193194
194195 40. "Executive director" means the executive director of the board of pharmacy.
195196
196197 41. "Federal act" means the federal laws and regulations that pertain to drugs, devices, poisons and hazardous substances and that are official at the time any drug, device, poison or hazardous substance is affected by this chapter.
197198
198199 42. "Full-service wholesale permittee":
199200
200201 (a) Means a permittee who may distribute prescription-only drugs and devices, controlled substances and over-the-counter drugs and devices to pharmacies or other legal outlets from a place devoted in whole or in part to wholesaling these items.
201202
202203 (b) Includes a virtual wholesaler as defined in rule by the board.
203204
204205 43. "Good manufacturing practice" means a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards and covering all aspects of design, monitoring and control of manufacturing processes and facilities to ensure that products do not pose any risk to the consumer or public.
205206
206207 44. "Highly toxic" means any substance that falls within any of the following categories:
207208
208209 (a) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, at a single dose of fifty milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered.
209210
210211 (b) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, if inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmospheric concentration of two hundred parts per million by volume or less of gas or vapor or two milligrams per liter by volume or less of mist or dust, provided the concentration is likely to be encountered by humans if the substance is used in any reasonably foreseeable manner.
211212
212213 (c) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more rabbits tested in a dosage of two hundred milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, if administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for twenty-four hours or less. If the board finds that available data on human experience with any substance indicate results different from those obtained on animals in the dosages or concentrations prescribed in this paragraph, the human data shall take precedence.
213214
214215 45. "Hospital" means any institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured that is approved and licensed as a hospital by the department of health services.
215216
216217 46. "Intern" means a pharmacy intern.
217218
218219 47. "Internship" means the practical, experiential, hands-on training of a pharmacy intern under the supervision of a preceptor.
219220
220221 48. "Irritant" means any substance, other than a corrosive, that on immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce a local inflammatory reaction.
221222
222223 49. "Jurisprudence examination" means a board-approved pharmacy law examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or another board-approved pharmacy law examination.
223224
224225 50. "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate container of any article that, unless easily legible through the outside wrapper or container, also appears on the outside wrapper or container of the article's retail package. For the purposes of this paragraph, the immediate container does not include package liners.
225226
226227 51. "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter that either:
227228
228229 (a) Is on any article or any of its containers or wrappers.
229230
230231 (b) Accompanies that article.
231232
232233 52. "Letter of reprimand" means a disciplinary letter that is a public document issued by the board and that informs a licensee or permittee that the licensee's or permittee's conduct violates state or federal law and may require the board to monitor the licensee or permittee.
233234
234235 53. "Limited service pharmacy" means a pharmacy that is approved by the board to practice a limited segment of pharmacy as indicated by the permit issued by the board.
235236
236237 54. "Manufacture" or "manufacturer":
237238
238239 (a) Means every person who prepares, derives, produces, compounds, processes, packages or repackages or labels any drug in a place, other than a pharmacy, that is devoted to manufacturing the drug.
239240
240241 (b) Includes a virtual manufacturer as defined in rule by the board.
241242
242243 55. "Marijuana" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3401.
243244
244245 56. "Medical practitioner" means any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic medicine, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian or other person who is licensed and authorized by law to use and prescribe drugs and devices to treat sick and injured human beings or animals or to diagnose or prevent sickness in human beings or animals in this state or any state, territory or district of the United States.
245246
246247 57. "Medication order" means a written or verbal order from a medical practitioner or that person's authorized agent to administer a drug or device.
247248
248249 58. "Narcotic drug" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3401.
249250
250251 59. "New drug" means either:
251252
252253 (a) Any drug of which the composition is such that the drug is not generally recognized among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of drugs as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the labeling.
253254
254255 (b) Any drug of which the composition is such that the drug, as a result of investigations to determine its safety and effectiveness for use under such conditions, has become so recognized, but that has not, other than in the investigations, been used to a material extent or for a material time under those conditions.
255256
256257 60. "Nonprescription drug" or "over-the-counter drug" means any nonnarcotic medicine or drug that may be sold without a prescription and that is prepackaged and labeled for use by the consumer in accordance with the requirements of the laws of this state and federal law. Nonprescription drug does not include:
257258
258259 (a) A drug that is primarily advertised and promoted professionally to medical practitioners and pharmacists by manufacturers or primary distributors.
259260
260261 (b) A controlled substance.
261262
262263 (c) A drug that is required to bear a label that states "Rx only".
263264
264265 (d) A drug that is intended for human use by hypodermic injection.
265266
266267 61. "Nonprescription drug wholesale permittee":
267268
268269 (a) Means a permittee who may distribute only over-the-counter drugs and devices to pharmacies or other lawful outlets from a place devoted in whole or in part to wholesaling these items.
269270
270271 (b) Includes a virtual wholesaler as defined in rule by the board.
271272
272273 62. "Notice" means personal service or the mailing of a copy of the notice by certified mail and email addressed either to the person at the person's latest address of record in the board office or to the person and the person's attorney using the most recent information provided to the board in the board's licensing database.
273274
274275 63. "Nutritional supplementation" means vitamins, minerals and caloric supplementation. Nutritional supplementation does not include medication or drugs.
275276
276277 64. "Official compendium" means the latest revision of the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary or any current supplement.
277278
278279 65. "Other jurisdiction" means one of the other forty-nine states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory of the United States of America.
279280
280281 66. "Package" means a receptacle that is defined or described in the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary as adopted by the board.
281282
282283 67. "Packaging" means the act or process of placing a drug item or device in a container for the purpose or intent of dispensing or distributing the item or device to another.
283284
284285 68. "Parenteral nutrition" means intravenous feeding that provides an individual with fluids and essential nutrients the individual needs while the individual is unable to receive adequate fluids or feedings by mouth or by enteral feeding.
285286
286287 69. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation and association, and their duly authorized agents.
287288
288289 70. "Pharmaceutical care" means the provision of drug therapy and other pharmaceutical patient care services.
289290
290291 71. "Pharmacist" means an individual who is currently licensed by the board to practice the profession of pharmacy in this state.
291292
292293 72. "Pharmacist in charge" means the pharmacist who is responsible to the board for a licensed establishment's compliance with the laws and administrative rules of this state and of the federal government pertaining to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacturing of drugs and the distribution of drugs and devices.
293294
294295 73. "Pharmacist licensure examination" means a board-approved examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or any other board-approved pharmacist licensure examination.
295296
296297 74. "Pharmacy" means:
297298
298299 (a) Any place where drugs, devices, poisons or related hazardous substances are offered for sale at retail or where prescription orders are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist.
299300
300301 (b) Any place that displays on or in the place or that displays a sign on the place the words "pharmaceutical chemist", "apothecary", "druggist", "pharmacy", "drugstore", "drugs" or "drug sundries", any combination of these words, or any words of similar meaning in any language.
301302
302303 (c) Any place where the characteristic symbol of pharmacy or the characteristic prescription sign "Rx" is exhibited.
303304
304305 (d) Any building or other structure or portion of a building or other structure that is leased, used or controlled by a permittee to conduct the business authorized by the board at the address specified on the permit issued to the permittee.
305306
306307 (e) A remote dispensing site pharmacy.
307308
308309 (f) A remote hospital-site pharmacy.
309310
310311 (g) A satellite pharmacy.
311312
312313 75. "Pharmacy intern" means a person who has all of the qualifications and experience prescribed in section 32-1923.
313314
314315 76. "Pharmacy technician" means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter.
315316
316317 77. "Pharmacy technician trainee" means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter.
317318
318319 78. "Poison" or "hazardous substance" includes any of the following if intended and suitable for household use or use by children:
319320
320321 (a) Any substance that, according to standard works on medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy or toxicology, if applied to, introduced into or developed within the body in relatively small quantities by its inherent action uniformly produces serious bodily injury, disease or death.
321322
322323 (b) A toxic substance.
323324
324325 (c) A highly toxic substance.
325326
326327 (d) A corrosive substance.
327328
328329 (e) An irritant.
329330
330331 (f) A strong sensitizer.
331332
332333 (g) A mixture of any of the substances described in this paragraph, if the substance or mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children.
333334
334335 (h) A substance that is designated by the board to be a poison or hazardous substance. This subdivision does not apply to radioactive substances, economic poisons subject to the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act or the state pesticide act, foods, drugs and cosmetics subject to state laws or the federal act or substances intended for use as fuels when stored in containers and used in the heating, cooking or refrigeration system of a house. This subdivision applies to any substance or article that is not itself an economic poison within the meaning of the federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act or the state pesticide act, but that is a poison or hazardous substance within the meaning of this paragraph by reason of bearing or containing an economic poison or hazardous substance.
335336
336337 79. "Practice of pharmacy":
337338
338339 (a) Means furnishing the following health care services as a medical professional:
339340
340341 (i) Interpreting, evaluating and dispensing prescription orders in the patient's best interests.
341342
342343 (ii) Compounding drugs pursuant to or in anticipation of a prescription order.
343344
344345 (iii) Labeling drugs and devices in compliance with state and federal requirements.
345346
346347 (iv) Participating in drug selection and drug utilization reviews, drug administration, drug or drug-related research and drug therapy monitoring or management.
347348
348349 (v) Providing patient counseling necessary to provide pharmaceutical care.
349350
350351 (vi) Properly and safely storing drugs and devices in anticipation of dispensing.
351352
352353 (vii) Maintaining required records of drugs and devices.
353354
354355 (viii) Offering or performing acts, services, operations or transactions that are necessary to conduct, operate, manage and control a pharmacy.
355356
356357 (ix) Providing patient care services pursuant to a collaborative practice agreement with a provider as outlined in section 32-1970.
357358
358359 (x) Initiating and administering immunizations or vaccines pursuant to section 32-1974.
359360
360361 (b) Does not include initiating a prescription order for any medication, drug or other substance used to induce or cause a medication abortion as defined in section 36-2151.
361362
362363 80. "Practitioner" means any physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator or other person who is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state, or any pharmacy, hospital or other institution that is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state.
363364
364365 81. "Preceptor" means a pharmacist who is serving as the practical instructor of an intern and who complies with section 32-1923.
365366
366367 82. "Precursor chemical" means a substance that is:
367368
368369 (a) The principal compound that is commonly used or that is produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture.
369370
370371 (b) Listed in section 13-3401, paragraph 26 or 27.
371372
372373 83. "Prescription" means either a prescription order or a prescription medication.
373374
374375 84. "Prescription medication" means any drug, including label and container according to context, that is dispensed pursuant to a prescription order.
375376
376377 85. "Prescription-only device" includes:
377378
378379 (a) Any device that is limited by the federal act to use under the supervision of a medical practitioner.
379380
380381 (b) Any device required by the federal act to bear on its label essentially the legend "Rx only".
381382
382383 86. "Prescription-only drug" does not include a controlled substance but does include:
383384
384385 (a) Any drug that because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful effect, the method of its use, or the collateral measures necessary to its use is not generally recognized among experts, qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety and efficacy, as safe for use except by or under the supervision of a medical practitioner.
385386
386387 (b) Any drug that is limited by an approved new drug application under the federal act or section 32-1962 to use under the supervision of a medical practitioner.
387388
388389 (c) Every potentially harmful drug, the labeling of which does not bear or contain full and adequate directions for use by the consumer.
389390
390391 (d) Any drug, other than a controlled substance, that is required by the federal act to bear on its label the legend "Rx only".
391392
392393 87. "Prescription order" means any of the following:
393394
394395 (a) An order to a pharmacist for drugs or devices that is issued and signed by a duly licensed medical practitioner in the authorized course of the practitioner's professional practice.
395396
396397 (b) An order that is transmitted to a pharmacist through word of mouth, telephone or other means of communication directed by that medical practitioner. Prescription orders received by word of mouth, telephone or other means of communication shall be maintained by the pharmacist pursuant to section 32-1964, and the record so made by the pharmacist constitutes the original prescription order to be dispensed by the pharmacist. This paragraph does not alter or affect laws of this state or any federal act requiring a written prescription order.
397398
398399 (c) An order that is initiated by a pharmacist pursuant to a collaborative practice agreement with a provider as outlined in section 32-1970, or immunizations or vaccines administered by a pharmacist pursuant to section 32-1974.
399400
400401 (d) A diet order or an order for enteral feeding, nutritional supplementation or parenteral nutrition that is initiated by a registered dietitian or other qualified nutrition professional in a hospital pursuant to section 36-416.
401402
402403 88. "Professionally incompetent" means:
403404
404405 (a) Incompetence based on a variety of factors, including a lack of sufficient pharmaceutical knowledge or skills or experience to a degree likely to endanger the health of patients.
405406
406407 (b) When considered with other indications of professional incompetence, a pharmacist or pharmacy intern who fails to obtain a passing score on a board-approved pharmacist licensure examination or a pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician trainee who fails to obtain a passing score on a board-approved pharmacy technician licensure examination.
407408
408409 89. "Radioactive substance" means a substance that emits ionizing radiation.
409410
410411 90. "Remote dispensing site pharmacy" means a pharmacy where a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern prepares, compounds or dispenses prescription medications under remote supervision by a pharmacist.
411412
412413 91. "Remote hospital-site pharmacy" means a pharmacy located in a satellite facility that operates under the license issued by the department of health services to the hospital of which it is a satellite.
413414
414415 92. "Remote supervision by a pharmacist" means that a pharmacist directs and controls the actions of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns through the use of audio and visual technology.
415416
416417 93. "Revocation" or "revoke" means the official cancellation of a license, permit, registration or other approval authorized by the board for a period of two years unless otherwise specified by the board. A request or new application for reinstatement may be presented to the board for review before the conclusion of the specified revocation period upon review of the executive director.
417418
418419 94. "Safely engage in employment duties" means that a permittee or the permittee's employee is able to safely engage in employment duties related to the manufacture, sale, distribution or dispensing of drugs, devices, poisons, hazardous substances, controlled substances or precursor chemicals.
419420
420421 95. "Satellite facility" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36-422.
421422
422423 96. "Satellite pharmacy" means a work area located within a hospital or on a hospital campus that is not separated by other commercial property or residential property, that is under the direction of a pharmacist, that is a remote extension of a centrally licensed hospital pharmacy, that is owned by and dependent on the centrally licensed hospital pharmacy for administrative control, staffing and drug procurement and that is not required to be separately permitted.
423424
424425 97. "Symbol" means the characteristic symbols that have historically identified pharmacy, including show globes and mortar and pestle, and the sign "Rx".
425426
426427 98. "Third-party logistics provider" means an entity that provides or coordinates warehousing or other logistics services for the following items, but that does not take ownership of the items, and that distributes those items as directed by a manufacturer, wholesaler, dispenser or durable medical equipment supplier that is permitted by the board:
427428
428429 (a) Narcotic drugs or other controlled substances.
429430
430431 (b) Dangerous drugs as defined in section 13-3401.
431432
432433 (c) Prescription-only drugs and devices.
433434
434435 (d) Nonprescription drugs and devices.
435436
436437 (e) Precursor chemicals.
437438
438439 (f) Regulated chemicals as defined in section 13-3401.
439440
440441 99. "Toxic substance" means a substance, other than a radioactive substance, that has the capacity to produce injury or illness in humans through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any body surface.
441442
442443 100. "Ultimate user" means a person who lawfully possesses a drug or controlled substance for that person's own use, for the use of a member of that person's household or for administering to an animal owned by that person or by a member of that person's household.
443444
444445 101. "Virtual manufacturer" means an entity that contracts for the manufacture of a drug or device, including a private label distributor as defined in 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 207.1, and that meets all of the following:
445446
446447 (a) Owns either:
447448
448449 (i) The new drug application or abbreviated new drug application number as defined by the United States food and drug administration for a drug.
449450
450451 (ii) The unique device identification number as defined by the United States food and drug administration for a prescription device.
451452
452453 (b) Is not involved in the physical manufacture of the drug or device.
453454
454455 (c) Contracts with a United States food and drug administration registered manufacturing entity for the physical manufacture of the drug or device.END_STATUTE
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456457 Sec. 2. Title 32, chapter 18, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-1980, to read:
457458
458459 START_STATUTE32-1980. Virtual manufacturers; oversight and contracting requirements
459460
460461 A. A virtual manufacturer located in this state or located in another jurisdiction that is responsible for the shipment of prescription drugs or devices into this state shall make professionally reasonable efforts to ensure that the United States food and drug administration registered manufacturing entity for the physical manufacture of a prescription drug or prescription device complies with current good manufacturing practices as described in 21 Code of Federal Regulations Part 210, 211, 212, 314, 808, 812 or 820, as applicable.
461462
462463 B. A virtual manufacturer of prescription drugs shall contract with a drug manufacturer that is permitted by this state. END_STATUTE
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