FDA approves plan for Florida to import lower-cost Canadian drugs

The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a pathway for Florida to import medicine from Canada. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo

Jan. 5 (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a plan to allow Florida to import prescription drugs from Canada.

The FDA said the section 804 import program, or SIP, was “the first step on this pathway” toward allowing Florida to import certain Canadian prescription drugs if they would “significantly reduce the cost to the American consumer without imposing additional risk to public health and safety.”

The agency said the program was authorized on a temporary basis for two years beginning from when the FDA was first notified of the first drug shipment to be imported.

Before drugs can be imported, the