2023-08-07 03:31:21
Although it is true, for parents today it becomes a challenge for their children to take their medicines due to the bad taste they produce in their mouths. Therefore, they can now request that the medicine be flavored and not be so unpleasant for children.
But an unintended consequence of a 2019 law may bring this longstanding practice into conflict. Not only with a national standard, but also with the federal government.
A new bill from that session takes as its main horizon correcting this by codifying that drug preparation “does not include the addition of a flavoring agent to improve palatability.”
Old fashioned: the flavored medicine debate
This debate has been going on since 2019 when the state passed a law that required California pharmacists to prepare drugs in a way that complied with the rules outlined by the United States Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit organization that sets standards on how medicines are prepared
“At the time, Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, a Thousand Oaks Democrat and author of the law, said the goal was to ensure Californians received medications that met national health and safety standards, citing a multistate outbreak of fungal meningitis in 2012 that killed 64 people due to the unsafe composition of a steroid,” reported IVP.
And it is that California must comply with its drug preparation standards established in state law, in order to further regulate the way pharmacists flavor drugs and could discourage them from offering the service completely.
statements
In a statement to CalMatters, Assemblyman Tom Lackey, Republican of Palmdale and another co-author with Assemblywoman Tina McKinnor, D-Inglewood, said flavored medications “have no problem” and described the board’s opposition to the bill as ” curious”.
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