Food and Drug Regulations

Marginal note:Verbal order or prescription

G.03.008 A pharmacist must, before dispensing a controlled drug in accordance with a verbal order or prescription, make a written record of it that sets out

• (a) their name or initials;

• (b) the name, initials and municipal address of the practitioner who issued the order or prescription;

• (c) the name and municipal address of the person named in the order or prescription;

• (d) the name, form and quantity of the controlled drug;

• (e) the directions for use given with the order or prescription;

• (f) the date on which the controlled drug was dispensed; and

• (g) the number assigned to the order or prescription.