The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
001
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REGULATED DRUGS
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 4212)
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§ 4212. Labels
(a) Whenever a manufacturer sells or dispenses a regulated drug and whenever a wholesaler
sells or dispenses a regulated drug in a package prepared by him or her, he or she
shall securely affix to each package in which that drug is contained a label showing
in legible English the name and address of the vendor and the quantity, kind, and
form of regulated drug contained therein. No person, except a pharmacist or dispensing
physician for the purpose of filling a prescription under this chapter, shall alter,
deface, or remove any label so affixed.
(b) Whenever a pharmacist or an employee of a hospital, infirmary, school, first aid station,
or nursing home sells or dispenses any regulated drug, he or she shall affix to the
container in which such drug is sold or dispensed a label showing his or her own name,
address, and registry number, or the name, address, and registry number of the pharmacist
or hospital or nursing home for whom he or she is lawfully acting, the name and address
of the patient, or if the patient is an animal the name and address of the owner of
the animal and the species of the animal, the name, address and registry number of
the physician, dentist, or veterinarian by whom the prescription was written, the
kind and form of the drug contained therein unless the practitioner has specifically
ordered in that prescription that such information not be specified on the label,
such directions as may be stated on the prescription, and the date of the issuance
of the prescription. No person shall alter, deface, or remove any label so affixed.
This subsection shall not apply to regulated drugs sold or dispensed for use exclusively
within a hospital.
(c) Physicians, dentists, or veterinarians dispensing regulated drugs shall affix to the
container a label showing the dispensing practitioner’s name, address, and registry
number, the name and address of the patient, or if the patient is an animal the name
and address of the owner of the animal and the species of the animal, the kind and
form of the drug contained therein unless the dispensing practitioner considers that
such information should not be so specified for medical reasons, such directions necessary
for use, and the date of the issuance of the prescription and the dispensing of the
drug. This subsection shall not apply to an amount of regulated drugs equivalent to
three days’ dosage dispensed to a patient for his or her immediate use without charge
by a physician on house call. (Added 1967, No. 343 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. March 23, 1968.)