Wyoming: Making some good rules permanent

In between watching “Longmire” re-runs, the members of the Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy had created some emergency rules allowing veterinary prescription drug wholesalers (including 503Bs) to sell or deliver non-controlled substance veterinary medications to individuals responsible for the care of a livestock animal. 

Those rules were supposed to expire May 29, but on April 28 the board proposed making that a permanent change to the Wyoming Pharmacy Act Rules and Regulations.

Another change the Wyoming BoP is proposing would repeal the state’s existing rules regarding sterile and non-sterile compounding (as well as hazardous drugs and radiopharmaceuticals) in favor of USP chapters 795, 797, 800, and 825. It noted that USP is “the standard of purity, strength, and quality for medications in the United States,” and that “more than forty-five states require compliance with USP.”

(Side note: We wish California was one of them. Here’s why.)