In 2013, the federal Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) was signed into law. It established provisions to create two different kinds of drug compounding facilities:
To be registered as a 503B facility by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), compounding pharmacies must meet stringent rules and regulations to ensure the consistent quality and integrity of their compounding from batch to batch. Referred to as current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs), these rules and regulations are the same as those followed by the traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
Read our white paper for a deeper look at 503A versus 503B. Download Your Copy.
To facilitate compliance with these strict practices and processes—which Stokes Pharmacy has voluntarily done for decades, before 503B regulations were promulgated—Stokes Healthcare built a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, where our traditionally compounded products are manufactured: Epicur Pharma.
Expanding to include Epicur allows us to meet the evolving needs of veterinary practices as regulations and laws changed, including GFI 256 and USP Guidelines, and serve the needs of many of your patients with standardized and tested bulk medications while still serving individual patients through Stokes Pharmacy.
Epicur Pharma® manufactures drugs with consistent potency, sterility, and purity from batch to batch, raising the standard in animal drugs. Our commitment to drug consistency and quality emphasizes our devotion to patient safety.
Bottom line, it means that doctors and patients alike can rely on the quality, safety, and integrity of the medications we produce, knowing they’ve been formulated under exacting manufacturing standards for sterility and purity.
Both types of facilities are important to your practice—but they have different jobs!
Our free flowchart can help you decide which compounding facility is best for each patient prescription and office order!
There is a front & back version too! Download it here.
We’re currently experiencing higher-than-usual call volumes and iFill registration requests. To help you save time, we encourage veterinary professionals to submit prescriptions using the options below.
Pet Owners Waiting on Prescriptions
Once your veterinarian has sent your prescription to us, please call us directly at 800.754.5222 with your pet’s information, shipping address, and payment method. You do not need to wait for an outbound call from us.
Veterinary Professionals: Submit Prescriptions Without Waiting on Hold
For the quickest service, please use these options, listed in order of preference:
Submitting online, by fax, or by email helps you avoid extended phone wait times. If you don’t yet have an iFill account and need to submit a prescription now, please use fax, email, or phone, since new registrations are currently taking longer than usual to process. Once your urgent orders are in, we recommend registering for an iFill account so that in the future, veterinary teams and pet owners can place orders anytime, with no phone call needed.
Our team is working hard to keep up with increased demand, and we truly appreciate your patience and partnership. Thank you for helping us keep things moving!
