21 U.S.C. § 211 — Preservation of originals of prescriptions compounded and copies thereof; inspection of prescriptions by consular officers; marking containers of drugs

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This law tells pharmacies how to keep prescription records. A pharmacy owner or manager must keep the original prescription, or a copy, for at least three years. They must give copies to the doctor or patient on request. In China, consular officers can inspect certain prescriptions, and drug containers must be clearly labeled.

This section applies to any person, firm, or corporation whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States and who owns, partly owns, or manages a drugstore or pharmacy. That business must keep a suitable book or file at its place of business. In it, they must preserve, for at least three years, the original of every prescription the pharmacy compounds or dispenses, or a copy of it — except when section 207 or 208 of this title already requires keeping the original. If asked, the owner, part owner, or manager must give the prescribing doctor, or the person for whom it was compounded or dispensed, a true and correct copy of the prescription. Any prescription covered by section 207 or 208, and any prescription or sales register for the substances those sections cover, must always be open to inspection by duly authorized U.S. consular officers in the consular districts of the United States in China. Finally, no such person, firm, or corporation may, in a consular district, compound or dispense any drug or deliver it to anyone else, without marking the container with the drug's name and directions for using it.

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Every person, firm, or corporation whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States owning, partly owning, or managing a drug store or pharmacy shall keep in his place of business a suitable book or file, in which shall be preserved for a period of not less than three years the original of every prescription compounded or dispensed at such store or pharmacy, or a copy of such prescription, except when the preservation of the original is required by section 207 or 208 of this title. Upon request the owner, part owner, or manager of such store shall furnish to the prescribing physician, or to the person for whom such prescription was compounded or dispensed, a true and correct copy thereof. Any prescription required by section 207 or 208 of this title, and any prescription for, or register of sales of, substances mentioned in such sections shall at all times be open to inspection by duly authorized consular officers in the consular districts of the United States in China. No person, firm, or corporation whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States shall, in a consular district, compound or dispense any drug or drugs or deliver the same to any other person without marking on the container thereof the name of the drug or drugs contained therein and directions for using the same.

Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 74, § 9, 38 Stat. 821.)

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1915Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 74 · 38 Stat. 821

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