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Public commenters ask California Board of Pharmacy to act on vaccine reports, technician standards and intern leave
Summary
Multiple public commenters at the board’s Nov. 5 meeting urged action on vaccine-adverse-event reporting, standardized testing or training for pharmacy technicians and changes to intern-pharmacist licensure to allow a leave-of-absence retention period; the board referred some topics to committees and encouraged formal agenda requests.
At the Nov. 5 meeting of the California State Board of Pharmacy, several public commenters urged the board to consider a range of issues affecting pharmacy practice, from vaccine-adverse-event reports to technician testing, language access and intern licensure rules.
Julie Threet, calling from Butte County, said she has repeatedly submitted comments and cited figures she said were pulled from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), telling the board that as of Nov. 5 there were 27,060 reports and…
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