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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">This is great information but I do not see the source – can you pdf this resolution or link to it somewhere please?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks Ted,<br>
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Heidi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">********************************************************************</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Heidi Sanborn, Executive Director
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California Product Stewardship Council</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">(916) 706-3420 office (916) 402-3911 cell
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>ted schettler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 09, 2012 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott Cassel; pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] Pharma industry complaint against Alameda County<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">FYI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">The California Medical Assoc adopted the following resolution at their recent annual meeting.. It is also being referred to the AMA for national action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">RESOLVED: That CMA support medication collection or “take back” programs, funded in whole or part by the pharmaceutical industry, that help keep unused medications out of the environment and out of the hands
of potential overdose victims or drug abusers; and be it further</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">RESOLVED, that this be referred for national action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Ted Schettler</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">UNUSED MEDICATION COLLECTION/"TAKE BACK” PROGRAMS
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Author: Stephen Follansbee, MD, Steve Heilig, MPH </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Adopted as Resolution 104-2012, California Medical Association)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif""> <b>
</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">Whereas, Discarded medications often end up in waterways, landfills, and other locations where they can be the source of accidental overdoses, resale for abuse, or
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">become</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif""> pollutants which can be ingested or otherwise effect humans and other creatures; and
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Whereas, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">British Columbia
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">has a medication collection system designed to make it easier for residents to get rid of their unwanted prescription medications and help prevent overdoses and accidental poisonings and reduce
water pollution; and </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Whereas, in California, Alameda County Supervisors recently unanimously approved a nationally unprecedented Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance requiring producers of drugs sold or distributed
in the county to pay for the safe collection and disposal of unused medications; failure to comply will cost drugmakers $1,000 a day in fines; and</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">
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</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Whereas, existing medication collection programs costs are largely borne by public entities, hospitals,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">citizens directly if they contact their local refuse disposal company for special collection,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">and law enforcement, but the Alameda program shifts the cost of disposal from taxpayers to drug companies. Currently
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">in</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Alameda County, residents can discard pills they no longer need at 28 publicly funded drop-off locations, which
cost</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">s</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> an estimated $330,000
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">annually </span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">in public funds; now be it</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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RESOLVED: That CMA support medication collection or “take back” programs, funded in whole or part by the pharmaceutical industry, that help keep unused medications out of the environment and out of the hands of potential overdose victims or drug abusers; and
be it further</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">RESOLVED, that this be referred for national action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:scott@productstewardship.us" title="scott@productstewardship.us">
Scott Cassel</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us" title="pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us">
pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Sunday, December 09, 2012 4:08 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> [Pharmwaste] Pharma industry complaint against Alameda County<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks to one of our members for the attached 11-page complaint filed in federal court by PhRMA, GPhA, and BIO against Alameda County's Safe Drug Disposal Ordinance. The lawsuit
provides a concise summary of the law. It is also a broad rebuttal against the concept of producer responsibility, arguing that drug-take back programs should be a government function.
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<b>Scott Cassel<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Chief<b>
</b>Executive Officer/Founder<br>
<i>Product Stewardship Institute, Inc.</i><br>
29 Stanhope Street<br>
Boston, MA 02116<br>
617-236-4822 (ph)<br>
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