Can blister packages prepared and dispensed by the pharmacy be returned to stock if returned to the pharmacy?
COMAR 10.34.10.07 permits a pharmacist to accept the return of a properly labeled and properly sealed manufacturer_s package or individual unit dose of a drug or a device that the pharmacist determines to have been handled in a manner which preserves the strength, quality, purity, and identity of the drug or device during an interim period between the sale of the drug or device and its return to the pharmacy.In 2000, the Board of Pharmacy considered whether medications prepared and dispensed by a pharmacy in blister packaging could be returned to the pharmacy stock and used for subsequent dispensing. Such packages are neither sealed manufacturer_s packages or individual unit doses.A pharmacist may not return to stock for subsequent dispensing blister packages prepared by the pharmacy that intermingles different drugs in a single compartment.
COMAR 10.34.10.07 permits a pharmacist to accept the return of a properly labeled and properly sealed manufacturers package or individual unit dose of a drug or a device that the pharmacist determines to have been handled in a manner which preserves the strength, quality, purity, and identity of the drug or device during an interim period between the sale of the drug or device and its return to the pharmacy. In 2000, the Board of Pharmacy considered whether medications prepared and dispensed by a pharmacy in blister packaging could be returned to the pharmacy stock and used for subsequent dispensing. Such packages are neither sealed manufacturers packages nor individual unit doses. A pharmacist may not return to stock for subsequent dispensing blister packages prepared by the pharmacy that intermingles different drugs in a single compartment. A pharmacist may return to stock, for subsequent dispensing, blister packages prepared by the pharmacy if the packages contain a single drug enti
