| Show POISONS UNDER 1 r r f STRICTER IK Bill Bi Relating to Pharmacists Provides for Rigid Regula Regulation Regulation Regulation tion of Druggists MORPHINE IS INTERDICTED ERROR NO LONGER EQUIVALENT TO FELONY By B direction of the state board of phar pharmacy pharmacy macy maC and the State Pharmaceutical so society clety Senator Benner Denner X N Smith yesterday Introduced introduce a bill bi providing for the rigid rl hl regulation of th the drug business In Utah Itah The bill bi provides strict qualifications for registered pharmacists and assistants and provides for heavy h penalties for the sae sale of certain poisons pol ons without a physicians prescription and without requiring the applicant for foe fot such uch poison p lson to sign sig an official off offIcial cial register Eleven sections of the present law laW gov governing governing crates pharmacy are amended and two new sections are 01 added by the thc proposed law Ir In Ir addition to the qualifications pre prescribed scribed scribe by b the present law tho the bill pro provides provides provides vides that that every eer applicant fi r a certificate as registered pharmacist ph inc t must have an ed education edUcation at least let equal to that at the com corn of the work of or the eighth grade of the public schools school Must Be Within Call Cal Another amendment amplifies the pres present present present ent law by bV making it I unlawful for a reg registered registered J pharmacist to l leave ave hit his hl assistant than in charge of the pharmacy for more hours at a time and pro provides provides vides Ides that a registered pharmacist must always alwa s be within call cal By the bill bi the state board of pharmacy is given the power por to appoint inspectors Inspector to investigate all al dispensaries ani an drug stores stor s within the time state tate The experience necessary to qualify a pharmacist for a a position on the state hoard board Is Increased by bv the terms of the bill from five to ten years e rs The TIle board beard Is to report biennially to the governor and an nn annually annually to the State tate Pharmaceutical elation Fees for the registry of oC phar pharmacists pharmacists caton maoists are raised from Jl fl 1 to S 2 and the fee for the registration of the assistant is II made JI JIIn 1 In the Poison Polson Squad The poison polson schedule embraces embrace almost every known kno poison polson Schedule A contains the names of the tho poisons of which except on the registration of the purchaser to together together together gether with th the purpose puros for which the th poison is purchased the sale is I forbidden Schedule B contains the names name of less serious poisons are to be sold sol with without without without out the necessity of requiring legislation for the tho registry of the purchasers The sale of morphine morp lne in any except on prescription of a practicing physician Is absolutely absolute The Tho law as amended by b the bill bl Is in only one respect less harsh lash than the pros pres present ent law Under the statute now in force forc any pharmacist ph who unwittingly errs In filling a prescription and ad death results r sult Is guilty of a felony felon Under the proposed propose law the offense is Jade made a misdemeanor |
