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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Too bad they couldn&#8217;t fit something like &#8220;Disposal:
<a href="http://www.earth911.com">www.earth911.com</a>&#8221; on the <a href="http://www.usp.org/sites/default/files/usp_pdf/EN/hottopics/rs362f_pcl_2012-09-v18-page2.pdf">
sample label</a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stevan Gressitt<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> pharmwaste<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] New from USP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First Universal Standards Guiding Content, Appearance of Prescription Container Labels to Promote Patient Understanding of Medication Instructions<br>
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USP General Chapter &lt;17&gt; Prescription Container Labeling seeks to address the nation&#8217;s more than one million adverse drug events per year from medication misuse. The standard provides a universal approach to the format, appearance, content and language of instructions
 that appear on containers patients receive from their pharmacies. Wide variability in prescription container labels exists today across individual prescriptions, pharmacies, retail chains, and states. The USP standard provides specific direction on how to
 organize labels in a &#8220;patient-centered&#8221; manner that best reflects how most patients seek out and understand medication instructions.<br>
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Watch a Video of Thomas Reinders, Pharm.D., chair of the USP Nomenclature<br>
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Safety and Labeling Expert Committee explaining the new USP standards for the content and appearance of prescription container labels and how these standards will impact patients.<br clear="all">
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-- <br>
Stevan Gressitt, M.D., D.F.A.P.A.<br>
Faculty Associate, University of Maine Center on Aging<br>
Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research<br>
Athens, Greece<br>
Founding Director, International Institute for Pharmaceutical Safety<br>
University of New England, College of Pharmacy<br>
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences<br>
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry<br>
University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine<br>
314 Clark Road<br>
Unity, Maine, 04988<br>
<a href="mailto:gressitt@gmail.com" target="_blank">gressitt@gmail.com</a> &nbsp;<br>
Cell: 207-441-0291<br>
<a href="http://www.benzos.une.edu" target="_blank">www.benzos.une.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.safemeddisposal.com" target="_blank">www.safemeddisposal.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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