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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Ed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">The text you quoted is from the part of the proposed regulations that show the DEA’s intent.&nbsp; I think the key language is in the actual proposed regs under
 Subpart B, § 1317.70 (f) and § 1317.75 (g) where it says the mail back package or inner liner respectively “…shall not be opened, x-rayed, analyzed, or otherwise penetrated.”&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><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>Ed Gottlieb<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 11, 2013 8:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] DEA; &quot;may not&quot; = may ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Someone from EPA suggested that I am misinterpreting one part of the DEA draft rules.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Because of use of the word &quot;may&quot;, he reads the following as actually permitting inventory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&quot;Controlled substances collected by collectors may not be individually counted or inventoried.&quot;&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Since this may be correct, I am rewording my comment as follows:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The meaning of this rule is not clear.&nbsp;&nbsp; The use of the word “may&quot;&nbsp;leaves it open to interpretation.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">If what was meant is, &quot;Controlled substances collected by collectors do not have to be individually counted or inventoried.&quot; we are very supportive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Suggestion:&nbsp; Clarify the wording.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">If this rule is intended to mean, “must not (or &quot;shall not&quot;) be individually counted or inventoried under any circumstances&quot;, this will prevent data collection for existing and future
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Suggestion:&nbsp; Provide an exemption to</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> this ban on inventorying collected materials under certain circumstances.&nbsp; [We may&nbsp;include&nbsp;specific exemptions as suggested by others.]&nbsp; T<span style="color:black">he
 ban on any non-law enforcement person from handling controlled substances at any time would also need to be removed to allow for inventory to occur.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Our&nbsp;groups’ inventory&nbsp;efforts&nbsp;are done under the watchful eye of law enforcement and produce data that could prove important to setting new prescribing guidelines designed to prevent so much waste
 medication from being generated.&nbsp;&nbsp;Medical professionals, mostly pharmacists and pharmacy technicians do the actual counting of doses with the help of a pill counting machine.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Ongoing disposal&nbsp;data&nbsp;for residential&nbsp;and LTC sources,&nbsp;obtained from collection events and drop-boxes,&nbsp;would&nbsp;do more than provide a scientific basis for establishing&nbsp;better&nbsp;prescribing guidelines.&nbsp;
 This data could also&nbsp;be used to&nbsp;verify if new&nbsp;prescribing guidelines are&nbsp;having a measurable effect on the amount of waste produced.&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Providing exceptions to the ban on inventorying&nbsp;adds&nbsp;a minimal risk of diversion while offering a&nbsp;significant means to gather&nbsp;data important for setting policies&nbsp;to&nbsp;reduce the amount of pharmaceutical
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