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(Medical-NewsWire.com, November 09, 2016 ) Seeking healthcare in North America can be personalised as per the needs of patients. Instead of opting for a pharmaceutical product that treats a disorder but also implicates other healthy functionaries, a patient can customise and create new drug with help of a recommended medical practitioner. In North America, such practices are commonly known as pharmaceutical compounding or simply compounding, and are pervasively exercised by pharmacists across the United States.
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Since compounding pharmacies in the U.S. are regulated and licensed under respective states, Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB) is empowered with setting up of national standards. PCAB body provides standardisation to new drugs produced from compounding pharmacies, much like how Food & Drug Administration (FDA) audits standards of any medicine or food product being physically administered. In order to avoid jurisdictional ambiguity, the U.S. government amended it Drug Quality & Security Act (DQSA) and introduced sections that bifurcate drug regulation among PCAB and FDA. The key amendments include,
Section 503A: Compounding pharmacies developing drugs specifically patients do not need an FDA nod for approval. These pharmacies can be regulated under PCAB and state-level pharmacy boards, provided that such patient-specific drugs are compounded in a response to particular prescription.
Section 503B: Non-traditional compounding facilities, under specified circumstances, will be regulated under FDA.
Besides the marginally variable definitions of “copy” drug, these sections are observed as reasonable in deducing regulations for the U.S. compounding pharmacies. The key regulations for monitoring pharmaceutical compounding are as follows,
Drug Testing
Pharmacies undertaking poor compounding measures can lead to contamination of drugs. Pharmacy boards restrict production of such drugs, which are low in purity, strength and quality by testing them under various trials. Complaints filed against such compounding pharmacies can rigorously affect their licenses. In states such as Missouri and Texas, drug testing regulations have proved beneficial for identifying either severely weak or extremely strong drugs with help of random testing and commercial-scale testing equipment.
Incident Reporting
Compounding pharmacies must standardise their new medication, and record any incident of adverse effects due to drug administration. Rising number of severe accidents related to compounded medications has resulted into revocation of licenses for pharmacies. The most excruciating example ever recorded under incident reporting regulation includes the 2012 meningitis outbreak by New England Compounding Centre. Reports surfaced that a drug compounded by the pharmaceutical centre mutated a bacterial pathogen. As a result, nearly thousand patients who administered the drug became sick, leading to more than 60 deaths. Similar incidents were reported in other states, which add the casualty count and prosecuted the respective compounding pharmacies with grave penalties.
Outsourcing Facilities
Non-traditional or outsourcing compounding facilities, as mentioned in Section 503 above, may or may not introduce medications developed with patient-specific drugs. However, to avoid an oversight, FDA can inspect these drugs by allowing licensed pharmacists to supervise the compounding process. Few aspects under outsourcing facilities regulations are specified below,
The facilities must be FDA-registered
Added ingredients must be as per standardised drug regulations
The resultant drugs should not be a part of FDA’s ineffective or unsafe drugs list
The compounded drug cannot be “copy” of one or more existing marketed drugs.
Regulatory Abuse & “Off-Label” Use
Owing to rising incidences of regulatory misuse, the DQSA can change the regulations and implement them upon certain compounded pharmacies. Compounding pharmacies that develop inefficient drugs by discovering regulatory flaws are later examined when changes are implemented. Official labelling can also cause confusion for regulatory bodies, and force indifferences between them and compounding pharmacies. The “off-label” use regulation clearly defines that manufacturers of compounded drugs can only include safety and effectiveness claims on the label to promote its consumption. However, getting labels approved may take time, which may lead to the “off-label” use of compounded drugs in medical practices.
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Future Market Insights
Abhishek Budholiya
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abhishek.b@futuremarketinsights.com
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