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Jul 23, 2008 10:40 am US/Central

Minn. Pharmacy Fined For Internet Prescriptions

ST. PAUL (AP) ― A pharmacy in Byron has been slapped with a record $25,000 fine for filling Internet prescriptions in violation of a new state law.

It's the first time the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy has stepped in to stop pharmacies from filling online prescriptions written by faraway doctors who have never met their patients in person.

The board is also fining two pharmacists in Byron and two pharmacists in Bemidji.

Byron Marketplace Pharmacy filled more than 400 prescriptions a week from a Pennsylvania doctor during three months in 2007, leading to a $10,000 fine for pharmacist-in-charge Donald Steege and a $1,000 fine for another pharmacist there.

Two pharmacists from Market Pharmacy in Bemidji were also fined for filling Internet prescriptions, including those for a St. Cloud man who died of a prescription drug overdose in 2006.

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