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drug prices, the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) may be stepping on its toes in helping to allow more personal drug importation. In late September, Secretary Azar, in a final rule , certified that importing drugs from Canada, subject to Section 804 of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (Section 804), 21 U.S.C.
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Despite the apparent green light, it will be a while before we see Canadian drugs on our pharmacy shelves. manufacturers to authorize the use of their FDA-approved labeling to importers and either test the imported products or give information to importers to test the products so the importers can submit pre-import requests to the FDA.
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On September 20, 2020, HHS under the Trump Administration made the required certification for the first time, and concurrently issued a final rule to permit states, and, in certain circumstances, pharmacies or wholesale distributors, to seek authorization from FDA to import certain drugs from Canada. (See See our blog post on the rule.)
The reality is that Americans have already been importing medications from foreign pharmacies because of substantially lower prices for many years, and the law is currently flexible to allow them to do so. The first proposed channel of prescription drug importation is already codified in law: Section 804 of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
The agency drafted a new proposed rule to allow importation from Canada of lower-cost drugs and industry guidance for drug manufacturers to import their FDA-approved foreign drug versions, for which they can charge lower prices. Most importantly, Canada and the manufacturers may not cooperate. They set a list price for that unique NDC.
Licensed pharmacies in many other countries are safe and charge much lower prices than those in the United States. A handful of states have passed importation legislation to allow state-licensed, wholesale pharmacies to import from Canadian wholesale pharmacies. And they are not prosecuted for doing so. It makes sense.
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