There is little regulation of how pharmacies ship drugs to patients, though extremes of hot or cold can make medicine unsafe or ineffective.
Nov. 17, 2022, 7:48 PM UTCPatients who get their prescription medications by mail in Oklahoma may soon have better protections for the safety of those drugs than any other state. On Wednesday, Oklahoma regulators proposed the nation’s first detailed rule to control temperatures during shipping, according to pharmacy experts.
NBC News found that most state pharmacy boards, the regulators responsible for pharmacy safety, did not have specific rules for how pharmacies should ship customers’ medication, few asked about this process in their inspections, and many said it was simply up to the pharmacy to ensure safe shipping. The proposed Oklahoma rule is the first of its kind to set clear guidelines on temperature safety during transit. It would require all pharmacies shipping or delivering medication to use packaging tested to ensure drugs do not go outside their safe temperature ranges, require them to be able to assess the safety of a medication if there are delays in delivery, and mandate that they give patients notification of shipping and delivery.
The board began evaluating its shipping rules earlier this year after a presentation from researchers at Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s pharmacy school on a study examining the risks of exposure to extreme temperature for mailed medication, according to meeting minutes.
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