Pharmacies: compounding.

Under the Pharmacy Law, a violation of which is a crime, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy. That law authorizes a pharmacy to furnish prescription drugs only to certain entities, including specific health care entities, and individual patients or another pharmacy either pursuant to prescription or as otherwise authorized by law. This bill would authorize a pharmacy that provides compounding services to manufacture a nonpatient-specific dangerous drug for a general acute care hospital in order to help alleviate a commercial shortage of that drug.