Modern Compounding Perspectives: Assuring the Compliance of your Compounding Operation in a Post – COVID-19 World – Seeing Light at the End of the Tunnel – Conducting a Proper Situational Compounding Analysis.

Although perhaps still a way off, there are many signs that with wide-spread availability of multiple vaccine candidates and other community measures, the pandemic shows every indication to be waning. This may signal a return to some state of “normality” in our lives. With this return to “normality”, a reasonable person would expect that there will be a return to governmental norms in the areas of enforcement, oversight, and inspections. So, it is time well spent to review your current compounding operations. Making sure that you are applying the correct Federal, State, or Local statute, rule, or regulation. This thorough review should pay special attention to any and all pandemic driven changes instituted at your pharmacy during the emergency so that any of these measures that are no longer necessary, applicable, or regulatorily allowed do not live beyond the emergency. While at the same time retaining, refining, or investing additional resources in best practices & new approaches that have advanced pharmacy practice.