I A C P IACP Goes to AVMA – Launches Veterinary Compounding Fact Sheet! IACP’s David G. Miller, RPh, Executive Vice President & CEO, and Sarah Dodge, Vice President of Government Affairs, participated as speakers and exhibitors at the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) meeting in San Diego, Calif., on August 3-4, 2012. Dave and Sarah met one-on-one with attendees to gather input on how compounding pharmacists can better serve their practices and their patients’ medication needs, continuing a dialogue between the two professions to help foster better communicate and collaborative opportunities.The IACP dynamic duo also updated veterinarians on the Franck’s Pharmacy case and possible legal and regulatory repercussions of the outcome; and discussed best practices for compounded veterinary medications. As part of IACP’s continuous efforts to educate the veterinary profession about pharmacy compounding, your Academy also developed and debuted at the AVMA conference a comprehensive Veterinary Compounding Fact Sheet. Objectives for the Fact Sheet, include: 1. Raising awareness of how licensed compounding pharmacists work with veterinarians to help provide a wider range of needed medications for animals. 2. Emphasizing how pharmacy compounding plays a vital role in helping to improve medication compliance for animal patients which have very specific dosage, flavoring, strength and concentration requirements. 3. Clarifying how pharmacy compounding is regulated by State Boards of Pharmacy and the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) standards employed in its operation as there has been considerable misinformation disseminated on this topic. 4. Clarifying the FDA’s role in ensuring that the Active Pharmaceutical Click here to download PDF Ingredients (API) used in compounding are safe and are manufactured by FDA-registered and inspected facilities, and that they are not “unapproved substances.” To emphasize that there is no such thing as the often-quoted “FDA-approved pharmacy.” 5. Raising awareness of how pharmacy compounding has been a critical help to veterinarians and their owners/patients during the current medication shortages. 6. Introducing veterinarians to IACP’s Compounding Pharmacy Assessment Questionnaire (CPAQ™) and explain how this tool can help them select a pharmacy compounding practice. 7. Gathering information from veterinarians on how compounding pharmacists can better serve their practices and their patients’ medication needs. IACP encourages its Members to use and share this Veterinary Compounding Fact Sheet with their respective veterinarians and patients! 30 I A C P C U S T O M Rx C O N N E C T I O N I A C P R X . O R G
Custom Rx Connection August 2012
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