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AND WE HAVE LIFTOFF—MAYBE
If nothing changes by the time readers read this chapter, compounding
pharmacies can elect to become outsourcing facilities under 503B, register
with the FDA as an outsourcing facility, and market/advertise their com-
pounded medications to hospitals, medical facilities, and health care pro-
viders. e doctors and patients can purchase these compounded drugs,
knowing that they were compounded in outsourcing facilities subject to
cGMP requirements and federal oversight by licensed pharmacists under
state oversight.
Compounding pharmacies that do not elect to become outsourcing
faci ...