Rule 480-50-.02 - Collection Receptacles Located at Authorized Collectors(1) Authorized collectors may place, utilize, and maintain collection receptacles at their DEA registered location. Receptacles can only be available to receive drugs when the collector is open for business and only when an authorized employee is present. (a) An authorized collector may only begin receiving drugs for disposal at the facility after providing thirty (30) days of advance notification to the Board and the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency of its qualification for and intention to serve as an authorized collector.(2) Collection receptacles must be lockable, sturdy, securely fixed within the collector's location. If the authorized collector is in a pharmacy, then the collection receptacle must be in the immediate vicinity of and can be observed from the prescription department areas where controlled substances are stored by registrants and where an authorized employee is present, and display a sign stating that non-controlled and controlled drugs in Schedule II, III, IV, or V can be accepted and placed in the receptacle. If the collection receptacle is in a hospital/clinic, it must be in an area monitored by employees, but shall not be in an area where emergency or urgent care is provided. If the collection receptacle is in an opioid treatment facility, it must be located in a room that does not contain other controlled substances and is securely locked with controlled access.(3) Each receptacle must also be capable of holding a removable, tamper-evident, and tear- resistant inner-liner bearing a unique identification number to receive the drugs. (a) To dispose of the contents of a receptacle, the sealed liners may be promptly delivered or transferred to a representative for a licensed reverse distributor for destruction. No on-site disposal of any drug is permitted. Only authorized employees can remove and seal an inner-liner and maintain records required by this rule.(b) Authorized collectors may store inner-liners that have been sealed upon removal from a collection receptacle in a securely locked, substantially constructed cabinet or a securely locked room with controlled access for up to three business days until the liners can be transferred for destruction, and then transferred to a representative for a licensed reverse distributor for destruction.(c) Collectors are encouraged to schedule inner-liner removals and installations as frequently as necessary.(d) Drugs placed in the authorized receptacle and stored in secure inner-liners can only be removed from the authorized collector location for destruction by transfer to a reverse distributor with a current permit issued by the Board and authorized by the DEA as a collector.(e) The date and time that the numbered inner-liners were taken from the collector and the numbers of the inner-liners must be recorded in logs: one maintained by the collector for two years and one maintained by the reverse distributor for each facility for two years.(f) The name, Board permit/license number, address, and telephone number of the reverse distributor removing the drugs must be recorded in logs maintained by the collector and by the reverse distributor for a period of at least two years; and(g) The name and signature of the responsible person representing the reverse distributor physically removing the inner-liners must be recorded in logs maintained by the collector and by the reverse distributor for a period of at least two years. Nothing in this rule shall prevent a DEA authorized common carrier from serving as the authorized representative of the reverse distributor.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 480-50-.02
O.C.G.A. §§ 16-13-45, 26-3-7, 26-3-16, 26-4-27, 26-4-28, 26-4-29, 26-4-87, 26-4-112, Pub. L. 111-273.
Original Rule entitled "Collection Receptacles Located at Authorized Collectors" adopted. F. Jan. 20, 2016; eff. Feb. 9, 2016.