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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 19-581

NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Approval of Drugs Which May be Used by Certain Optometrists

[49 Pa.B. 1967]
[Saturday, April 20, 2019]

 Under the Optometric Practice and Licensure Act (63 P.S. §§ 244.1—244.12), as amended by the act of December 16, 2002 (P.L. 1950, No. 225) (Act 225), the Secretary of Health (Secretary) has the authority to approve drugs for use in the ''practice of optometry'' as defined in Act 225. The Chairperson of the State Board of Optometry (Board) sent the Secretary a letter on November 1, 2018, requesting that the following drug be approved.

Oxervate® (cenegermin-bkbj) ophthalmic solution

 The drug was deemed approved and the approval of the use of this drug is effective upon publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

 For additional information, or persons with a disability who require an alternative format of this notice (for example, large print, audiotape, Braille) should contact Linda Chamberlain, Department of Health, Bureau of Community Program Licensure and Certification, Division of Home Health by means of the Drug, Device and Cosmetics Program, 555 Walnut Street, 7th Floor, Suite 701, Harrisburg, PA 17101, (717) 783-1379, or for speech and/or hearing-impaired persons, call the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984 (TDD users) or (800) 654-5988 (voice users).

RACHEL L. LEVINE, MD, 
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 19-581. Filed for public inspection April 19, 2019, 9:00 a.m.]


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