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Pharmacies: accessible prescription drug label information
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Disclosure
What it requires
- If you are a dispensing pharmacy and an individual acknowledges difficulty seeing or reading standard printed prescription labels, provide the label information through an electronic label that transmits it to the individual's accessible device, or provide a prescription drug reader at no cost (section 461-13.5(a)).
- Make sustained, periodic and reasonable efforts to inform the public that prescription drug label information is available in accessible formats (section 461-13.5(b)).
- Follow the best practices the United States Access Board recommends for pharmacies in providing independent access to prescription drug label information (section 461-13.5(c)).
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What this law does
A dispensing pharmacy must give an individual who acknowledges difficulty seeing or reading standard printed labels a means of access to the prescription drug label information, either an electronic label that transmits it to the individual's accessible device or a prescription drug reader at no cost. Dispensing pharmacies must make sustained, periodic and reasonable efforts to inform the public that label information is available in accessible formats.
A pharmacy that is a sole proprietorship with no more than two pharmacists may be exempted by the board on a case-by-case finding of undue burden. Act 256 of 2023 enacted the section; it states that it takes effect on , and was approved on .
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