PURPOSE: This rule establishes conditions for the return of drugs and medicines to the 19 CSR 20-2

location where purchased which will provide for the necessary public health protection.

1. (1) No person shall return drugs or medicines to any drug store, pharmacy or other retail or wholesale outlet or shall offer for resale any drug or medicine which has been removed from the point of original purchase and in any manner subjected to conditions which might cause contamination, deterioration or in any way affect the intended therapeutic value of the drug or medicine, except when a physician, licensed to practice in the state of Missouri may cause any of these items to be returned and resold by supplying the purchaser with an affidavit of purity and quality prepared on his/her letterhead or prescription blank and signed by him/her and covering only those drugs or medicines originally purchased on his/her order. The existence of an affidavit of purity and quality signed by a licensed physician need not bind any pharmacist, wholesaler or retailer of drugs or medicines to accept returned goods if s/he has reason to suspect contamination, deterioration or affected therapeutic value of the article in question.

AUTHORITY: sections 192.020 and 196.045, RSMo 1986.* This rule previously filed as 13 CSR 50-73.010. Original rule filed Nov. 21, 1958, effective Jan. 20, 1959. *Original authority: 192.020, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1951 and 196.045, RSMo 1943.