Pharmacy Verification Guide

General Information

• Verification guide for pharmacies, clinics, and hospitals.
• Requires the establishment's name and SAGARPA file number.
• Requires addresses for the business, establishment, and storage area.
• Requires to indicated verification location.

Document Review

• Verifies the provided name and social reason of the business visited.
• Checks correct address (street, number, town, neighborhood), phone number or communication method, municipality, zip code, and state where the visit is conducted.
• Requires business line specification.
• Specifies legal status through articles of incorporation for corporations or a notarized statement for individuals.
• Requires matching records with SAGARPA authorization otherwise request for authorization needs to be provided

Facility and Operational Requirements

• Asks for facility layout and personnel/supply flow chart.
• Requires notice or official statement of operation to the Secretary.
• Requires notifying the Secretary of recent authorization changes.
• Veterinary doctors that have their license must be authorized by the Secretary.
• Asks for list of suppliers, distributors, and customers.
• Requires active ingredients under the control of animal epidemic products that are sold or imported and have a SAGARPA regulation number.

Pharmaceutical Products

• Requires Group I pharmaceutical products to be classified, and such drugs will be reported through means that are determined by the Secretary by format. 
• All pharmaceutical products in group II must be classified.
• Requires biannual verification document by an authorized veterinary doctor.

Veterinary Pharmacies

• Only products with SAGARPA regulation numbers are sold and are labeled following NOM-012-ZOO-1993.
• Prohibits commercialization of human products and medical samples.
• Prohibits ingredients in the fabrication of chemical or pharmaceutic product, and pure salts.
• Requires proper storage of biological and chemical pharmaceutical in the refrigerators.
• Biological and pharmaceutical products must be given cold to consumers.
• Proper containment of food if sold loose in containers.
• Area for toxic substances are stored in separated and secured areas. 
• Requires to have sales to the products of group 1 with a logbook. 
• Protected document of formulas of products that have ingredients of group 1 that must have confidentiality. 

Regulation and Labeling

• Confidential file of medical that are generated from group II ingredients in products.
• Packaging, boxes, and instructions show restriction that indicate restriction for selling with prescription in group II ingredients. 
• Copied medical recipes for products with group 1 and 2 must have veterinaries
• Labels and bottles must adjust according to NOM-012-ZOO-1993 of products.
• Ingredients that are restricted cannot be stored. 

Veterinary Clinics and Hospitals

• Requires medical recipes copies of ingredients of the products that have sales in group 1 and 2. 
• Group 1 ingredients contain for selling by veterinarian and restriction medical recipe
• Group 2 ingredients should be sold under medical recipe in the boxes and labels. 
• Requires to be protected with system that locks and secures of the ingredients of group 1.
• Labels and bottles must have printed recipes for private veterinarian practices that follow the prescription of NOM-012-ZOO-1993.
• Verify with pharmaceuticals that they are prohibited from veterinary practices.
• Doctor must be a veterinarian.

Miscellaneous

• Has pest control program to stop insects.
• All verification must be complete with name and signature of authorized personal and key of approval with date and time.