- Board of pharmacy
- The state body that licenses pharmacies and holds the records used to check them.
Follow the medicine back
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that, with online care, the person receiving a compounded medicine may be unaware of who prepared it.
Preparing medicine to order is called compounding. Find out who will prepare and send it, and get a pharmacist contact for questions.
Most states require a pharmacy in another state to have a licence or permit in your state before sending you medicine.
U.S. state rules checked: September 26, 2026.
A badge answers another question
Accreditation is an outside check against a set of standards. It is different from a licence.
A medicine-making site’s FDA registration does not mean the FDA has approved that place or its drugs.
U.S. registration rule checked: September 26, 2026.
Ask what a badge checks, then return to the licence record and the exact medicine.
Keep these details together
- The pharmacy’s full name
- Its licence record in the relevant state
- The exact medicine being discussed
- A way to ask the pharmacist a question
- Written information about the medicine