Veterinary Clinic Orders

The Minnesota Board of Pharmacy changed the regulations related to compounding veterinary medications for office use in the 2019 legislative session. Mix Pharmacy follows all of these regulations, and for your reference we have summarized the pertinent information below. If you have any questions about the regulations, please feel free to give us a call.

From 2019 Legislation Affecting MN Board of Pharmacy Licensees and Registrants (Revised June 14, 2019). Subd. 4, Page 57:

Emergency veterinary compounding. A pharmacist working within a pharmacy licensed by the board in the veterinary pharmacy license category may compound and provide a drug product to a veterinarian without first receiving a patient-specific prescription only when: 

1. the compounded drug product is needed to treat animals in urgent or emergency situations, meaning where the health of an animal is threatened, or where suffering or death of an animal is likely to result from failure to immediately treat; 
2. timely access to a compounding pharmacy is not available, as determined by the prescribing veterinarian; 
3. there is no commercially manufactured drug, approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, that is suitable for treating the animal, or there is a documented shortage of such drug; 
4. the compounded drug is to be administered by a veterinarian or a bona fide employee of the veterinarian, or dispensed to a client of a veterinarian in an amount not to exceed what is necessary to treat an animal for a period of ten days; 
5. the pharmacy has selected the sterile or nonsterile compounding license category, in addition to the veterinary pharmacy licensing category; and 
6. the pharmacy is appropriately registered by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration when providing compounded products that contain controlled substances.