Verification record

How current is Mississippi’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?

Last verified 2026-10-19. Read from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word; the weekly re-check on 2026-10-19 confirmed that every recorded passage is still there today.

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Passages captured from the issuing body

2,807 characters, word for word

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Official sources

mbp.ms.gov

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Dated reads on file

captures taken 2026-10-12, 2026-10-16, 2026-10-19

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Automatic re-checks

newest 2026-10-19

The rule on file

Miss. Admin. Code tit. 30, pt. 3001, art. XL § 4.D. A flat 3 pharmacy technicians per pharmacist, in every pharmacy setting. Pharmacy interns and externs are not counted.

That is the sentence the Mississippi page states. The passages below are what the issuing body served when RxShift read it, kept as a dated record so a pharmacy and its counsel can check the sentence against the source. How a rule is read is decided by people and recorded with its date; no automated check can change a reading. RxShift reports deficiencies against this reading; it does not certify compliance, and nothing here is legal advice.

The recorded passages

Recorded word for word on the read of 2026-10-19. Each week an automated re-check opens every official source named here and confirms each passage is still on the page as served; the mark on each passage is what the newest re-check (2026-10-19) found.

2 of 2 passages found 2026-10-19

  • masthead

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    TITLE 30: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS PART 3001: MISSISSIPPI PHARMACY PRACTICE REGULATIONS

    90 characters, recorded as written.

  • art. XL § 4.A to 4.D

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    A. It is the responsibility of the supervising pharmacist on duty to require that all pharmacy technicians under his/her supervision comply with this Article. B. It is the responsibility of the pharmacist-in-charge to ensure that all pharmacy technicians performing pharmacy technician duties have valid pharmacy technician registrations. C. It is the responsibility of the pharmacist-in-charge to ensure that the technician is certified, has completed an accredited training program, or provides a training program for a pharmacy technician that includes pharmacy terminology, pharmacy calculations, dispensing systems and labeling requirements, pharmacy laws and regulations, record keeping and documentation, proper handling and storage of medications, pharmaceutical diversion awareness, and medication safety. D. A pharmacist may not supervise more than three (3) pharmacy technicians during a given time. Any pharmacist that supervises more than three (3) pharmacy technicians during a given time is subject to disciplinary action by the Board. Support personnel used solely for clerical duties such as filing prescriptions and general record keeping need not be included in the pharmacist to pharmacy technician supervision ratio.

    1,237 characters, recorded as written.

4 of 4 passages found 2026-10-19

  • art. VIII § 1.A, last sentence

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to an extern or intern working under the supervision of a pharmacist.

    118 characters, recorded as written.

  • art. VIII § 1.C(2), verbatim (the "(2)" marker left out)

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    The pharmacist shall be present and personally supervising the activities of the pharmacy technician at all times;

    114 characters, recorded as written.

  • art. VIII § 1.C(5), verbatim (the "(5)" marker left out)

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    A pharmacist shall not actively supervise more than three pharmacy technicians at one time. Externs/Interns are not included in this quota calculation;

    151 characters, recorded as written.

  • art. VIII § 1.D, first sentence

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    In all instances where the services of pharmacy technicians are utilized in the preparation of a drug for delivery to a patient, a pharmacist shall be present and personally supervise the pharmacy technician and shall be responsible for the correct preparation and delivery of the drug to the patient.

    301 characters, recorded as written.

4 of 4 passages found 2026-10-19

  • § 73-21-73 heading

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    § 73-21-73. Definitions [Effective upon April 23, 2025. Repealed effective July 1, 2029]. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

    153 characters, recorded as written.

  • § 73-21-73(k)

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    (k) "Extern" means a student in the professional program of a school of pharmacy accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education who is making normal progress toward completion of a professional degree in pharmacy.

    229 characters, recorded as written.

  • § 73-21-73(o)

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    (o) "Intern" means a person who has graduated from a school of pharmacy but has not yet become licensed as a pharmacist.

    120 characters, recorded as written.

  • § 73-21-73(ii)

    Confirmed by re-check 2026-10-19
    (ii) "Supportive personnel" or "pharmacist technician" means those individuals utilized in pharmacies whose responsibilities are to provide nonjudgmental technical services concerned with the preparation and distribution of drugs under the direct supervision and responsibility of a pharmacist.

    294 characters, recorded as written.

Every read and every re-check, newest first

A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one.

  • 2026-10-19

    Re-check: confirmed

    The weekly re-check found every recorded passage (10 of 10, 2,408 characters) still on the issuing body's page as served that day.

  • 2026-10-19

    Full read

    Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.

    Mississippi's pharmacist-to-technician ratio is unchanged as of October 19, 2026. Board of Pharmacy rules (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 30, pt. 3001, art. XL § 4.D and art. VIII § 1.C(5)) still allow a pharmacist to supervise no more than 3 pharmacy technicians at a time, staff used only for clerical duties need not be counted, and pharmacy interns and externs are not included in that count, though a pharmacist must be present and personally supervising.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-10-16

    Re-check: not allowed

    The automated re-check could not read lexisnexis.com (empty or near-empty page (0 characters of text), likely a JavaScript-only shell); mbp.ms.gov (empty or near-empty page (151 characters of text), likely a JavaScript-only shell).

  • 2026-10-16

    Full read

    Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.

    Mississippi's pharmacist-to-technician ratio is unchanged as of October 16, 2026. Board of Pharmacy rules (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 30, pt. 3001, art. XL § 4.D) still allow a pharmacist to supervise no more than 3 pharmacy technicians, and the Board's rule says pharmacy interns and externs are not included in that count. The Pharmacy Practice Act's definitions, Miss. Code Ann. § 73-21-73, were re-enacted in 2025 and run to July 1, 2029.

    Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-10-15

    Re-check: no baseline

    No report with a verbatim record qualified as a baseline on that date, so there was nothing for the automated re-check to compare.

  • 2026-10-12

    Currency screen

    A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.

    Mississippi allows a pharmacist to supervise no more than three pharmacy technicians at one time, and externs and interns are not included in that count (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 30, pt. 3001, art. VIII, § 1.C(5) and art. XL, § 4.D). Mississippi pharmacy law sets no maximum shift length, no minimum rest between shifts and no required meal or rest break; it does require the pharmacist-in-charge to be on site at least 20 hours a week or half the pharmacy's open hours and to keep a record of those hours for the Board (art. VII, § 1.B(6)).

    Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log

  • 2026-09-16

    Report

    A dated report on file for this state.

    Mississippi allows a pharmacist to supervise no more than three pharmacy technicians at a given time, and a pharmacist who exceeds that is subject to Board disciplinary action. Support personnel used solely for clerical duties such as filing prescriptions and general record keeping do not count toward the ratio (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 30, pt. 3001, art. XL, § 4.D).

    Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log

What the re-check results mean

  • Confirmed: every recorded passage was still on the issuing body’s page as served that day.
  • Mismatch: at least one passage was not found. It is reported as it stands, a person looks, and the rows after it show what followed.
  • Not allowed: the issuing body’s site does not permit automated reading, so the rule rests on its dated read, by a person where the page can only be opened in a browser.
  • Nothing to match, no baseline: the record on file held no passage the re-check can match, or no report yet qualified as its baseline.
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