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Domain 2 · 18.8% of the PTCB exam

Federal Requirements

About 15 of your 80 scored questions come from here. 116 questions in the full bank; a rotating free sample below.

Knowledge areas tested
  1. Federal requirements for storage, handling, and disposal of non-hazardous, hazardous (P-list), and pharmacological substances and wastes
  2. Federal requirements for controlled substance prescriptions (new, refill, transfer) and DEA controlled substance schedules calc
  3. Federal requirements for receiving, storing, ordering, labeling, dispensing, returning, take-back programs for, loss or theft of, and destroying controlled substances
  4. Federal restricted drug programs and related medication-processing requirements (pseudoephedrine, REMS) calc
  5. FDA requirements for medication recalls
  6. FDA product serialization, tracking, tracing, handling, and quarantining requirements (DSCSA)
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