Opinion ID: 2630324
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Dutchess's recordkeeping

Text: The record is unclear whether Dutchess conducted business with Cactus RX, another pharmaceutical wholesaler. However, for certain pharmaceutical purchases, Dutchess maintained two sets of pedigrees. One set of pedigrees listed Cactus RX as the original seller and authorized distributor. The other set identified a chain of wholesalers who handled the drug in question before it reached Dutchess, but the Board found that the information identifying that chain had been crudely redacted. Additionally, Dutchess's records indicate that Dutchess made several purchases of Serostim from Crystal Coast where no corresponding record of sale of the Serostim was provided. Dutchess provided only limited shipping records at the hearing. The shipping records that it provided showed that although Dutchess was then conducting business with Crystal Coast, it actually received several shipments from Overseas International, an unlicensed wholesaler in Florida. The Board also found that only 3 of the 29 Crystal Coast transactions for which Dutchess provided shipping records were actually shipped from Crystal Coast's licensed address. Dutchess did not provide any other shipping records for its transactions with Crystal Coast and provided no shipping records for its transactions with Genendo, Xenigen, and Rekcus. Legend also failed to provide shipping records for its transactions with Rekcus. Dutchess's and Legend's records further provided that, as noted above, Dutchess and Legend purchased Lupron from Crystal Coast, Genendo, Xenigen, and Rekcus. When selling the Lupron to subsequent purchasers, Dutchess and Legend provided pedigrees which indicated that they were authorized distributors of the drug but which did not disclose from whom they had purchased the drug. The Board heard testimony from Barb Tolbert, the manager of customer service for TAP Pharmaceuticals, that Dutchess and Legend were both customers-of-record with TAP. [6] At the hearing, Paul DeBree, the CEO of Dutchess and manager of Legend, testified that Dutchess and Legend obtained and maintained authorized distributor status with TAP so that they could purchase Lupron from wholesalers and then resell the Lupron to other wholesalers without providing a pedigree detailing the prior sales of the Lupron.