Laws
Food and drugs could no longer be adulterated or misbranded
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Created to prevent accidental childhood drug poisonings
What is the Poison Prevention PAckaging Act?
Enforces the Controlled Substance Act
Who is the DEA?
Prevents unfair competition?
Who is the Federal Trade Commission?
Rules that arer passed by the legislative branches of government
What are laws?
Established legend and patent drugs
What is the Durham Humphrey-Amendment?
Established NDC numbers
What is the Drug Listing Act?
Approves new drugs to be sold in the United States
Who is the FDA?
Sets standards of verification of product quality
What is USP?
Legislated rules and procedures that exist to carry out the law
What are regulations?
Act responsible for creating the FDA
What is the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act?
Provided grants and tax incentives to manufacturers who made drugs for rare conditions
What is the Orphan Drug Act?
Verifies internet pharmacy practice sites (VIPPS)
Who is National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)?
Regulates the requirements for becoming a pharmacy technician
Who is the State Board of Pharmacy?
Benchmarks or desired normal levels of quality for products or professionals
What are standards?
Required and IND application and proof of safety and efficacy
What is the Kefauver-Harris Amendment?
Created streamlined process for approving generic drugs
What is the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Hatch-Waxman Act)?
Sets health and safety standards for American workplaces
Who is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Supports pharmacy practice in health-system pharmacies
Who is the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)?
This organization sets standards for compounding sterile and nonsterile compounds
What is USP?
Created to combat and control drug abuse
What is the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (Control Substance Act)?
Required DURs and MTMs
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA-90)?
Controls pandemics and epidemics
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
Supports and focuses on pharmacy practice in community pharmacies
What is the American Pharmacists Association?
Following a code of high professional standards using moral principles
What is ethics?