NAC639.510. Maintenance and storage of pharmaceutical stock.

     1. The owner, manager, operator, managing pharmacist or pharmacist in charge of a licensed pharmacy shall maintain in the pharmacy a representative stock of dangerous drugs, controlled substances, chemicals, biologicals and devices in sufficient quantity to provide adequate pharmaceutical services for the people of the community which the pharmacy serves.

     2. The managing pharmacist of a pharmacy:

     (a) Is responsible for, and must have knowledge and control of, the acquisition and disposition by the pharmacy of the stock of the pharmacy; and

     (b) Shall ensure that the records relating to the acquisition or disposition of the stock of the pharmacy are maintained as required by law.

     3. The dangerous drugs, controlled substances, chemicals, biologicals and devices kept in the stock of a pharmacy must meet all of such standards of purity and strength as established by current official compendia or as established on the appropriate labels, and must be properly stored. Any preparation which varies from such standards of purity and strength or becomes unfit for use from deterioration or other cause must not be carried in stock and must be destroyed in a manner provided by law when so ordered by an agent of the Board.

     [Bd. of Pharmacy, § 639.225, eff. 6-26-80]—(NAC A by R159-99, 3-1-2000)