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c/compounding·submitted 3 months ago by u/santiago_rasmussen

compounding is the most under-discussed thing on this board

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compounding is the most under-discussed thing on this board, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. A 503A pharmacy compounds for an identified patient against a prescription. A 503B outsourcing facility registers with the regulator, may produce without patient-specific prescriptions, and is…

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u/gustav_cardoso13 points·3 months ago

Not convinced. You are comparing a compounded concentration with a branded one and assuming they match.

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u/dario_stanescu10 points·3 months ago

Correction: patient-specific refers to the prescription, not to a bespoke formulation. Common misreading and it changes the argument.

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u/ahmed_fonseca2 points·3 months ago

the price difference is mostly the intake, not the vial

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls6 points·3 months ago

What did the intake actually ask you?

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u/ahmed_okafor4 points·3 months ago

Disagree — a 503B being registered does not make its preparations equivalent to an approved product. Different regulatory category entirely.

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u/emeka_chowdhury5 points·3 months ago

a 503B has to register and report, so there is a paper trail to ask for

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