450.01(6)(c)
(c) Intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of persons or other animals.
450.01(7)
(7) "Dispense" means to deliver a prescribed drug or device to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the prescription order of a practitioner, including the compounding, packaging or labeling necessary to prepare the prescribed drug or device for delivery.
450.01(8)
(8) "Distribute" means to deliver, other than by administering or dispensing.
450.01(9)
(9) "Distributor" means a person licensed by the board under
s. 450.07 (2).
450.01(9m)
(9m) "Drop shipment" means a sale of a prescription drug to a wholesale distributor by the manufacturer of the drug, by the manufacturer's colicensed product partner, by the manufacturer's 3rd party logistics provider, or by the manufacturer's exclusive distributor, to which all of the following apply:
450.01(9m)(a)
(a) The wholesale distributor or chain pharmacy warehouse takes title to, but not physical possession of, the drug.
450.01(9m)(b)
(b) The wholesale distributor invoices a pharmacy, a chain pharmacy warehouse, or a person authorized to dispense or administer the drug to a patient.
450.01(9m)(c)
(c) The pharmacy, chain pharmacy warehouse, or person authorized to dispense or administer the drug receives delivery of the drug directly from the manufacturer, the manufacturer's 3rd party logistics provider, or the manufacturer's exclusive distributor.
450.01(10)(a)
(a) Any substance recognized as a drug in the official U.S. pharmacopoeia and national formulary or official homeopathic pharmacopoeia of the United States or any supplement to either of them;
450.01(10)(b)
(b) Any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease or other conditions in persons or other animals;
450.01(10)(c)
(c) Any substance other than a device or food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of persons or other animals; or
450.01(10)(d)
(d) Any substance intended for use as a component of any article specified in
pars. (a) to
(c) but does not include gases or devices or articles intended for use or consumption in or for mechanical, industrial, manufacturing or scientific applications or purposes.
450.01(11)
(11) "Drug product" means a specific drug or drugs in a specific dosage form and strength from a known source of manufacture.
450.01(11m)
(11m) "Facility" means a location where a wholesale distributor stores, handles, repackages, or offers for sale prescription drugs.
450.01(11r)
(11r) "Intracompany sales" means any transaction or transfer between any division, subsidiary, parent, or affiliated or related company under common ownership and control of a corporate entity or any transaction or transfer between colicensees of a colicensed product.
450.01(12)
(12) "Manufacturer" means a person licensed or approved by the federal food and drug administration to engage in the manufacture of drugs or devices, consistent with the definition of "manufacturer" under the federal food and drug administration's regulations and interpreted guidances implementing the federal prescription drug marketing act.
450.01(12m)
(12m) "Manufacturer's exclusive distributor" means a person that contracts with a manufacturer to provide or coordinate warehousing, distribution, or other services on behalf of the manufacturer and who takes title to the manufacturer's prescription drug but who does not have general responsibility to direct the sale or disposition of the drug.
450.01(13)
(13) "Manufacturing" means making, assembling, processing or modifying devices, or mixing, producing or preparing drugs in dosage forms by encapsulating, entableting or other process, or packaging, repackaging or otherwise changing the container, wrapper or label of any package containing a drug or device in furtherance of the distribution of the drug or device from the original place of manufacture to the person who makes final delivery or sale to the ultimate consumer.
450.01(13m)
(13m) "Nonprescription drug product" means any nonnarcotic drug product which may be sold without a prescription order and which is prepackaged for use by consumers and labeled in accordance with the requirements of state and federal law.
450.01(13r)(a)(a) "Normal distribution channel" means a chain of custody for a prescription drug that runs, directly or by drop shipment, from the manufacturer of a drug, from the manufacturer to the manufacturer's colicensed partner, from the manufacturer to the manufacturer's 3rd-party logistics provider, or from the manufacturer to the manufacturer's exclusive distributor, and continues as described in any of the following:
450.01(13r)(a)1.
1. To a pharmacy or to a person authorized to dispense or administer a drug to a patient.
450.01(13r)(a)2.
2. To an authorized distributor of record, and then to a pharmacy or to a person authorized to dispense or administer a drug to a patient.
450.01(13r)(a)3.
3. To an authorized distributor of record, then to one other authorized distributor of record, then to an office-based practitioner.
450.01(13r)(a)4.
4. To a pharmacy warehouse to the pharmacy warehouse's intracompany pharmacy, then to a patient or to a person authorized to dispense or administer a drug to a patient.
450.01(13r)(a)5.
5. To an authorized distributor of record, then to a pharmacy warehouse, then to the pharmacy warehouse's intracompany pharmacy, then to a patient or to a person authorized to dispense or administer a drug to a patient.
450.01(13r)(b)
(b) For purposes of this subsection, a distribution of a prescription drug to a warehouse or to another entity that redistributes the drug by intracompany sale to a pharmacy or to another person authorized to dispense or administer the drug constitutes a distribution to the pharmacy or to the person authorized to dispense or administer the drug.
450.01(14)
(14) "Patient" means the person or other animal for whom drug products or devices are prescribed or to whom drug products or devices are dispensed or administered.
450.01(14m)
(14m) "Pedigree" means a document or electronic file containing information that records each distribution of a prescription drug.
450.01(15m)
(15m) "Pharmacy warehouse" means a physical location for prescription drugs that acts as a central warehouse and performs intracompany sales.
450.01(16)
(16) "Practice of pharmacy" means any of the following:
450.01(16)(b)
(b) Compounding, packaging, labeling, dispensing and the coincident distribution of drugs and devices.
450.01(16)(d)
(d) Proper and safe storage of drugs and devices and maintaining proper records of the drugs and devices.
450.01(16)(e)
(e) Providing information on drugs or devices which may include, but is not limited to, advice relating to therapeutic values, potential hazards and uses.
450.01(16)(g)
(g) Supervision of pharmacist supportive personnel.
450.01(16)(h)
(h) Making therapeutic alternate drug selections, if made in accordance with written guidelines or procedures previously established by a pharmacy and therapeutics committee of a hospital and approved by the hospital's medical staff and use of the therapeutic alternate drug selection has been approved for a patient during the period of the patient's stay within the hospital by any of the following:
450.01(16)(h)2.
2. The patient's advanced practice nurse prescriber, if the advanced practice nurse prescriber has entered into a written agreement to collaborate with a physician.
450.01(16)(i)
(i) Drug regimen screening, including screening for therapeutic duplication, drug-to-drug interactions, incorrect dosage, incorrect duration of treatment, drug allergy reactions and clinical abuse or misuse.
450.01(16)(j)
(j) Performing any act necessary to manage a pharmacy.
450.01(16)(k)
(k) Administering prescribed drug products and devices under
s. 450.035 (1r) and, pursuant to vaccination protocols, vaccines.
450.01(17)
(17) "Practitioner" means a person licensed in this state to prescribe and administer drugs or licensed in another state and recognized by this state as a person authorized to prescribe and administer drugs.
450.01(18)
(18) "Prescribed drug or device" means any drug or device prescribed by a practitioner.
450.01(19)
(19) "Prescription" means a drug or device prescribed by a practitioner.
450.01(20)
(20) "Prescription drug" means all of the following, but does not include blood, blood components intended for transfusion, or biological products that are also medical devices:
450.01(20)(b)
(b) A controlled substance included in schedules II to V of
ch. 961, whether by statute or rule, except a substance that by law may be dispensed without the prescription order of a practitioner. Controlled substances are included within this definition for purposes of
s. 450.11 (3),
(4) (a), and
(8) only and for violations thereof punishable under
s. 450.11 (9).
450.01(21)
(21) "Prescription order" means an order transmitted orally, electronically or in writing by a practitioner for a drug or device for a particular patient.
450.01(21e)
(21e) "Repackage" means to repack or otherwise change the container, wrapper, or label of a prescription drug, except that "repackage" does not include any of the following:
450.01(21e)(a)
(a) An action by a pharmacist with respect to a prescription drug that the pharmacist is dispensing.
450.01(21e)(b)
(b) An action by a pharmacist who receives a prescription drug or device that the pharmacist dispensed to a patient, if, after altering the packaging or labeling of the prescription drug or device, the pharmacist returns the prescription drug or device to the patient.
450.01(21m)
(21m) "Repackager" means a person that repackages.
450.01(21s)
(21s) "Third party logistics provider" means a person that contracts with a prescription drug manufacturer to provide or coordinate warehousing, distribution, or other services on behalf of the manufacturer but that does not take title to the manufacturer's prescription drug or have general responsibility to direct the prescription drug's sale or disposition.
450.01(22)
(22) "Vaccination protocol" means a written protocol agreed to by a physician, as defined in
s. 448.01 (5), and a pharmacist that establishes procedures and record-keeping and reporting requirements for the administration of a vaccine by a pharmacist for a period specified in the protocol that may not exceed 2 years.
450.01(23)
(23) "Wholesale distribution" means distribution of a prescription drug to a person other than a consumer or patient, but does not include any of the following:
450.01(23)(b)
(b) The sale, purchase, distribution, trade, or transfer of a prescription drug or offer to sell, purchase, distribute, trade, or transfer a prescription drug for emergency medical reasons.
450.01(23)(c)
(c) The distribution of prescription drug samples, if the distribution is permitted under
21 USC 353 (d).
450.01(23)(d)
(d) Drug returns, when conducted by a hospital, health care entity, or charitable institution as provided in
21 CFR 203.23.
450.01(23)(e)
(e) The sale of minimal quantities, as defined by the board in an administrative rule, of prescription drugs by retail pharmacies to licensed practitioners for office use.
450.01(23)(f)
(f) The sale, purchase, or trade of a drug, an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug, or the dispensing of a drug pursuant to a prescription.
450.01(23)(g)
(g) The sale, transfer, merger, or consolidation of all or part of the business of a pharmacy from or with another pharmacy, whether accomplished as a purchase and sale of stock or business assets.
450.01(23)(h)
(h) The sale, purchase, distribution, trade, or transfer of a prescription drug from one authorized distributor of record to one additional authorized distributor of record, if the manufacturer states in writing to the receiving authorized distributor of record that the manufacturer is unable to supply the drug and the supplying authorized distributor of record states in writing that the drug has previously been exclusively in the normal distribution channel.
450.01(23)(i)
(i) The delivery of, or offer to deliver, a prescription drug by a common carrier solely in the common carrier's usual course of business of transporting prescription drugs, if the common carrier does not store, warehouse, or take legal ownership of the drug.
450.01(23)(L)
(L) The transfer from a retail pharmacy or pharmacy warehouse of an expired, damaged, returned, or recalled prescription drug to the original manufacturer or original wholesale distributor or to a 3rd-party returns processor or reverse distributor.
450.01(23)(m)
(m) The return of a prescription drug, if the return is authorized by the law of this state.
450.01(24)
(24) "Wholesale distributor" means a person engaged in the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs, including manufacturers, repackagers, own-label distributors, private label distributors, jobbers, brokers, warehouses, including manufacturers' and distributors' warehouses, manufacturers' exclusive distributors, manufacturers' authorized distributors of record, prescription drug wholesalers and distributors, independent wholesale prescription drug traders, 3rd party logistics providers, retail pharmacies that conduct wholesale distribution, and chain pharmacy warehouses that conduct wholesale distribution.
450.01 Annotation
Vitamins not intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, investigation, treatment, or prevention of diseases are not drugs under this section. 66 Atty. Gen. 137.
450.02
450.02
Pharmacy examining board. 450.02(1)
(1) The department shall keep a record of the proceedings and a register of the names and places of practice or business of pharmacies, manufacturers, distributors and other persons licensed under this chapter, and the books, registers and records of the department shall be prima facie evidence of the matters recorded.
450.02(2)
(2) The board shall adopt rules defining the active practice of pharmacy. The rules shall apply to all applicants for licensure under
s. 450.05.
450.02(2g)(a)(a) The pharmacy examining board shall, after consultation with the medical examining board and the board of nursing, promulgate rules that establish criteria for approving courses under
ss. 450.035 (1r) and
(2) and
450.085 (1).
450.02(2g)(b)
(b) The board shall promulgate rules that establish requirements and procedures for the administration of a drug product or device, as defined in
s. 450.035 (1g), by a pharmacist under
s. 450.035 (1r). Notwithstanding
s. 15.08 (5) (b), the board may promulgate rules under this paragraph only if the rules are identical to rules recommended by the pharmacist advisory council. The board may amend or repeal rules promulgated under this paragraph only upon the recommendation of the pharmacist advisory council.
450.02(2m)
(2m) The board shall periodically prepare and distribute letters, bulletins or other types of notice to pharmacists that identify the courses that are approved for purposes of
ss. 450.035 (1r) and
(2) and
450.085 (1).
450.02(3)
(3) The board may promulgate rules:
450.02(3)(a)
(a) Relating to the manufacture of drugs and the distribution and dispensing of prescription drugs.
450.02(3)(b)
(b) Establishing security standards for pharmacies.
