California Business and Professions Code

§ 4033

BPC § 4033 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 2 · Ch. 9 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)(1) “Manufacturer” means and includes every person who prepares, derives, produces, compounds, or repackages any drug or device except a pharmacy that manufactures on the immediate premises where the drug or device is sold to the ultimate consumer.

(2)Notwithstanding paragraph (1), “manufacturer” shall not mean a pharmacy compounding a drug for parenteral therapy, pursuant to a prescription, for delivery to another pharmacy for the purpose of delivering or administering the drug to the patient or patients named in the prescription, provided that neither the components for the drug nor the drug are compounded, fabricated, packaged, or otherwise prepared prior to receipt of the prescription.

(3)Notwithstanding paragraph (1), “manufacturer” shall not mean a pharmacy that, at a patient’s request, repackages a drug previously dispensed to the patient, or to the patient’s agent, pursuant to a prescription.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 492, Sec. 1. (SB 600) Effective January 1, 2015.