Sen. Feinstein Introduces Bill to Regulate Online Pharmacies
Senator Diane Feinstein [D-CA] introduced legislation last week that would modify the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) to further regulate the actions of internet pharmacies. The legislation, the Online Pharmacy Safety Act (S.2002), was introduced to the Senate via the Health, Education and Labor Committee and already has co-sponsorship from a bipartisan group of influential senators that includes John Cornyn [R-TX], Chuck Schumer [D-NY] and Jeff Sessions [R-AL]. The legislation aims to tighten the requirements needed to purchase regulated drug products from online pharmacies by requiring a valid prescription that is obtained from a medical professional with prescribing authority after conducting a medical evaluation. The legislation would also establish a registry of legitimate online pharmacy websites that would exist to educate consumers and promote public health, according to the sponsors. Pharmacies could be removed from the list if they are found to be breaking the law or for good cause. http://www.raps.org/focus-online/news/news-article-view/article/486/sen-feinstein-introduces-bill-to-regulate-online-pharmacies.aspx It doesn't say it this summary, but the online pharmacy would have to have a physical presence in the US. Basically, big Pharma is shutting down the purchase of drugs from the internet. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems to me that I remember an outcry about the underlying assumption > that Canadian pharmacies were run by furriners who did not know how to meet > the FDA's high (ha!) standards and could not be trusted to do so. This > outcry may have been in the Canadian media, since I read that too. > > I spent some time on Google unsuccessfully trying to research this when > they were trying to ram SOPA through, since it had some provisions about > endangering Americans with dangerous furrin drugs. As best I could > determine it said it was targeting counterfeit drugs but actually targeted > all drugs from foreign sources. I found something that said that FDA > approvals for drugs often specify a specific manufacturing method and also > location. (!) > > If true this would mean that back before Claritin became an > over-the-counter drug I was paying twelve times more for it than my mother > was in Canada because of the dubious benefit of buying something that was > made in Ohio or Utah or whatever the FDA-approved location was. There was > also some verbiage about language that made me wonder if the objected to > the presence of French on the patient information sheet, as though maybe > Americans were not able to turn the page over and find the English. > > But. I could not tell if this was the version that actually passed. Seems > to me it was part of Medicare "reform"? If so what I saw would have been > some sort of draft maybe, but not the bill itself. > > What I am getting to here is -- has anyone researched this already or does > anyone know where I can find a nice summary of the history of this > legislation? > > Thanks for any brainpower devoted to this question. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348759 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
