Storage of medications
Compiled text through Mar 31, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
No later Register activity identified in this check.
Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Mar 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)All medications shall be stored in a safe and secure manner consistent with the requirements of this section to insure control only by authorized personnel designated by the facility physician.
(b)Each facility shall store all drugs and biologicals in sanitary, locked compartments under proper temperature controls.
(c)Each facility shall store controlled drugs and other drugs subject to abuse in separately locked, permanently affixed, compartments and in accordance with article 33 of the Public Health Law and 10 NYCRR Part 80. Adequate records of dispensing of such drugs, including perpetual inventory record, shall be maintained.
(d)Poisons and medications for “external use only” shall be kept in a locked cabinet and separate from other medications.
(e)Medications whose shelf life has expired or which are otherwise no longer in use shall be disposed of or destroyed in accordance with State and Federal laws and regulations.