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Pharmacy law
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| food and drug Act | 1906- outlaws states from buying and selling food drinks and drugs that have been mislabeled and tainted |
| sherley amendment | 1912- outlaws labeling drugs with fake medical claims meant to trick the buyer |
| fda | 1930- food and drug administration is named |
| federal food drug and cosmetic act of 1938 | 1938- requires new drugs to be proven safe prior to markerting. starting a new system of drug regulation. requires safe limits for unavoidable poisonous substances and allows for factory inspections |
| durham-humphrey amendment | 1951- defines the type of drugs that cannot be used safely without medical supervision and limits the sale to prescription only by medical professionals |
| kefauver-harris drug amendment | 1962- requires manufacturers to prove that thier drugs are effective prior to marketing |
| over the counter drug review | 1972- nonprescription medications must be safe effective and appropriatly labeled |
| tamper resistant packaging regulations | 1982- makes it a crime to tamper with packaged produtcs and requires tamper-proof packaging |
| drug price competition and patent term restoration act hatch-waxman act | 1984- |
| prescription drug marketing act | 1988- designed to elminated diversion of products from legitmate channels of distribution and requires wholesalers to be licensed |
| food and drug administration modernization act | 1997- expands scope of agency activites and moves agency to the department of health and human services |
| medicare prescription drug improvement and modernization act of 2003 | 2003- includes medicare part d which increases access to medications through private insurers |