California Looks to Restrict Flavored Medicine for Children
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California Looks to Restrict Flavored Medicine for Children
Sometimes the simplest solutions can have the greatest impact, such as making medication more palatable for children. However, the California Board of Pharmacy is now considering limitations on this straightforward remedy.
The California Board of Pharmacy wants to mandate that medicine flavoring for toddlers and children be considered a compounding process that can only be carried out by compounding pharmacies.
Assemblywoman Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood), Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), and Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale), both Democratic and Republican members, have introduced Assembly Bill 782 to continue allowing community pharmacies to flavor medicine for our toddlers and children.
Get informed and let the other mamas in your network know.
Here are a few articles on this issue, a link to the legislation, and a compound pharmacy finder to see the distance you would have to travel.
Flavoring Medicine Is Vital For Kids. California May Soon Make It Harder
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), “compounding” does not include reconstitution of a drug pursuant to a manufacturer’s directions, the sole act of tablet splitting or crushing, capsule opening, or the addition of a flavoring agent to enhance palatability.
This information is sponsored by Jordan’s Guardian Angels a non-profit organization working with families with special needs children who who are challenged with the need to administer a variety of life-saving medication to their children who face many physical and intellectual disabilities. https://jordansguardianangels.org/
