Prescription Medication Return Policy
Prescriptions and Dispensed Medications
Please note: Dispensed medications may not be returned to Roscoe Village Animal Hospital per FDA regulation CPG Sec.460.300
*Please note we request a 24-‐hour notice for prescription refills.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration <-‐Protecting and Promoting Your Health CPG Sec. 460.300 Return of Unused Prescription Drugs to Pharmacy Stock POLICY:
A pharmacist should not return drugs products to his stock once they have been out of his possession. It could be a dangerous practice for pharmacists to accept and return to stock the unused portions of prescriptions that are returned by patrons, because he would no longer have any assurance of the strength, quality, purity or identity of the articles.
Many state boards of pharmacy have issued regulations specifically forbidding the practice. We endorse the actions of these State boards as being in the interest of public health.
The pharmacist or doctor dispensing a drug is legally responsible for all hazards of contamination or adulteration that may arise, should he mix returned portions of drugs to his shelf stocks. Some of our investigations in the past have shown that drugs returned by patrons and subsequently resold by the pharmacist were responsible for injuries.
Issued: 10/1/80