Decline Suspicious Offers
Decline Suspicious Offers
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Pharmacists can also play a major role in detecting unsafe products and stopping them before they reach
patients. You can use this list of risk factors to acquaint yourself with issues that might cause concern.
Unsolicited Sales Offers
- Advertises itself as located outside of the U.S. or lists a foreign telephone number
- Does not provide a listed physical address or phone number
- Promises the availability of a drug during a shortage
- Contains misspellings of ingredient and/or brand names
- Offers generic forms of drugs when none have been approved by the FDA
- Does not possess a dedicated hard/land telephone line and relies solely on a mobile phone
Suspicious Vendors
- Wants payments in cash only
- Refuses to pass on required pedigree documentation
- Refuses to certify that product is not diverted, not stolen, or not counterfeit
- Refuses to divulge source of the product
- Refuses to disclose expiration date or lot number of the product
- Offers a price that is too good to be true
- Has an inventory or product list that is in constant turnover
Does not have a wholesale license from the state licensing authority
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