NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Department of Health has received the petition for declaratory statement from Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, 655 W. Eight Street, Jacksonville, Florida 32209, filed on March 22, 2011.The petition seeks the agency's opinion as to the applicability of Sections 499.003(54)(b)7., 499.005(21), Florida Statutes, as it applies to the petitioner.
The petition seeks a declaratory statement that the codified exemption from the definition of “wholesale distribution” in Chapter 499, Part I, Florida Statutes (Section 499.003(54)(b)7., F.S.), applies to situations where a prescription drug that has been purchased by a health care entity from a wholesale distributor can be dropped shipped by the wholesale distributor directly to a repackager, repackaged and then transferred to the purchaser health care entity by the repackager.
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.