NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Department of Health has received the petition for declaratory statement from The Blood Alliance, Inc., 7595 Centurion Parkway, Jacksonville, Florida 32256; Florida Blood Services, Inc., 10100 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. St., North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716; Florida Blood Centers, Inc., 8669 Commodity Circle, Orlando, Florida 32819; and LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, Inc., 4039 West Newberry Road, Gainesville, Florida 32608, filed on March 1, 2011.The petition seeks the agency's opinion as to the applicability of Section 499.003(17), Florida Statutes, as it applies to the petitioner.
This is an amended notice of declaratory statement. The March 18, 2011, issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly did not include the date in which the petitions were filed with the Department of Health. The petitions seek a declaratory statement that the provision of prescription drugs to an intracompany branch location of a blood bank from its headquarters and the transport of prescription drugs to and into a hospital in connection with the therapeutic procedures performed at the hospital does not constitute a “distribution” of the drugs.
A copy of the Petition for Declaratory Statement may be obtained by contacting: Gregg Jones, Director, Drugs, Devices and Cosmetics Program, Department of Health, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C04, Tallahassee, Florida 32399.