QuestionsQuestions (Commonwealth Act No. 640)
Act No. 2236 provides that no certificate as second-class pharmacist (practicante de farmacia) shall be issued to any person by the board after the passage of the Act, and only a registered pharmacist’s certificate may be issued to those who pass the required examination.
The examination covers: General chemistry; inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry applied to pharmacy; physics as applied to pharmacy; botany, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, qualitative analytical chemistry and its especial application to the analysis of medicines and food stuffs, quantitative analytical chemistry; elementary toxicology and toxicological analysis and microscopy; practical pharmaceutical preparations; and compounding of prescriptions.
Applicants must pay the secretary-treasurer of the board ten dollars as an examination fee.
The ten-dollar fee serves as a fee entitling the applicant to the certificate mentioned in Section 5 of the Act if they pass the examination.
Applicants must establish that they have completed twenty-one (21) years of age and have been graduated from a legally chartered school, college, or university.
They must show they were registered in the office of the secretary of the board as apprentices in pharmacy, and that they had at least two years of practical experience in a pharmacy where prescriptions of physicians or veterinarians are compounded and where drugs, medicines, and poisons are sold at retail.
They must submit satisfactory evidence that they followed and were examined in the studies preliminary to the study of pharmacy in a school/college/university approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction.
Yes. The Act provides that any person who has heretofore been admitted to examination may later present himself for examination without the requirements referring to preliminary studies in a college approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction.
Any candidate who has failed to pass the examination satisfactorily three times may not again be examined before the board prior to one year from the date he was admitted to the last examination.
The board must prepare the program of subjects that contains all knowledge required to practice pharmacy. This program must be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and published three months before the examination date.
Any alteration must also be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and published three months before the examination date.
The examining board issues a registered pharmacist’s certificate to any one who passes the examination mentioned in Section 16, and it issues no certificate of practicante de farmacia to any second-class pharmacist.
The board is authorized to issue rules not in conflict with the Act for enforcement and prescribe penalties in those regulations not exceeding one hundred dollars fine and two months’ imprisonment (or both), at the discretion of the court. Such rules have force of law when approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
The Act does not apply (except labeling of poisons) to: (1) registered physicians putting up their own prescriptions or dispensing medicines to patients; (2) persons selling drugs, medicines, chemicals, chemical wholesale vendors, agents, or poisons at wholesale only; and (3) persons selling nonpoisonous household remedies and mineral medicinal waters.
The examining board has authority to determine what medicines are considered nonpoisonous household remedies, subject to approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
The sale of such nonpoisonous household remedies by other persons than registered pharmacists is strictly prohibited in places not more than five kilometers distant from an established pharmacy.