NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Department of Health has received the petition for declaratory statement from Community Blood Centers of Florida, Inc., 1700 North State Road 7, Lauderhill, Florida 33313, filed on March 4, 2011. The petition seeks the agency's opinion as to the applicability of Section 499.003(17), Florida Statutes, as it applies to the petitioner.
The petition seeks a declaratory statement that the provision of prescription drugs to an intracompany branch location of a blood bank from its headquarters and the transport of prescription drugs to and into a hospital in connection with the therapeutic procedures performed at the hospital does not constitute a “distribution” of the drugs.
A copy of the Petition for Declaratory Statement may be obtained by contacting: Gregg Jones, Director, Drugs, Devices and Cosmetics Program, Department of Health, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C04, Tallahassee, Florida 32399.