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What is NAPRA?

National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities: the Canadian body whose Model Standards for Pharmacy Compounding of Sterile and Non-sterile Preparations govern compounding practice across Canada, paralleling USP <795>/<797>/<800> in the United States.

Canadian provincial colleges of pharmacy adopt and enforce the NAPRA model standards, which cover sterile compounding, non-sterile compounding, and hazardous sterile compounding. The structure parallels the USP chapters but differs in specifics — including risk-level terminology, metric-first units, and pressure expressed in pascals.

Pharmacies operating in Canada need records organized around NAPRA's requirements and their province's adopted version, not a re-badged USP checklist.

See how CompliRx handles this in practice:

NAPRA compliance software

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CompliRx helps compounding pharmacies keep environmental monitoring, qualifications, cleaning, documents, and CAPA evidence inspection-ready.