The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Florida
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- EO 20-52 s. 4.B; ss. 499.005, 499.006(9), Fla. Stat.
- Issued
- 2020-03-23 Mar. 23, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-23
- End
- Duration of EO 20-52 (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersSupply chain
- Addressees
- distributors and sellers of PPE (N-95 respirators, surgical masks)
- Functions reached
- SC PPE supply (expired stock released to health-care settings)
- Collection
- Florida FL
Operative words
WHEREAS, PPE for which the expiration date has passed is ordinarily considered an adulterated device. s. 499.006(9), Fla. Stat. (2019). Such an adulterated device is barred from distribution, sale, or delivery.... 1. Accordingly, the provisions of section 499.006(9), Florida Statutes, as they relate to PPE are hereby SUSPENDED for the duration of the declaration of a state of emergency as described in Executive Order 20-52.
Enforcement
DBPR Division of Drugs, Devices and Cosmetics
Notes
Evidence of the PPE shortage that conditioned the elective-procedure reopening (FL-022 s. 5).