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Start with Virginia
Ask who sends the medicine. Get the full name. Open the state search. Match the name and place to the label. If they do not match, stop and ask why.
Before mailing prescription medicine into Virginia, a pharmacy based in another state had to register there, as of September 2026.
It also had to name one pharmacist with a Virginia licence as the person officially responsible for it, called the “pharmacist in charge”.
Virginia required a free phone line to that out-of-state pharmacy.
The line had to reach a pharmacist for at least six days and 40 hours each week.
The phone number had to appear on each container sent to Virginia.
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For a sterile made-to-order medicine
As of September 2026, a pharmacy sending sterile made-to-order medicine into Virginia, such as injections, had to tell the state Board of Pharmacy first.
A large out-of-state batch-making site, called an outsourcing facility, also needed its own Virginia registration.
It had to show FDA registration and usually a recent FDA inspection report; when FDA had not inspected in time, Virginia could accept other inspection records or send an inspector.
Being registered with the FDA did not mean its medicines were FDA-approved.
Notebook entry
Run both checks
- Search the exact pharmacy name in Virginia DHP License Lookup.
- Match the address and pharmacist details to the label.
- If the label names a batch-making outsourcing facility, check the FDA’s list of them too.
- Treat “FDA registered” as registration, not product approval.
Brief source notes
Virginia DHP License LookupThe state record for doctors, nurses, pharmacies and public board orders.
Virginia nonresident pharmacy lawRules for pharmacies mailing prescription medicine into Virginia.
FDA registered outsourcing facilitiesA registration list; registration is not approval.