Compounding business: Baya Pharmacy ready to produce weight-loss drugs

  • Baya Pharmacy East has added a sterile compounding lab in which it will start producing its own weight-loss drugs for customers. Pictured in front of one of the sterile machines in one of the sterile rooms at the pharmacy are Baya Pharmacy owner Carl Allison (from left), pharmacist AJ Ward, Director of Clinical Sciences Shivani Mehta and pharmacist Danae Ray. Mehta and Ward are certified to operate the sterile compounding lab and hazardous compounding lab. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)
    Baya Pharmacy East has added a sterile compounding lab in which it will start producing its own weight-loss drugs for customers. Pictured in front of one of the sterile machines in one of the sterile rooms at the pharmacy are Baya Pharmacy owner Carl Allison (from left), pharmacist AJ Ward, Director of Clinical Sciences Shivani Mehta and pharmacist Danae Ray. Mehta and Ward are certified to operate the sterile compounding lab and hazardous compounding lab. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

    As Baya Pharmacy East’s newest addition started taking shape over the past few months, the questions kept coming.

    “Is that a chicken incubator,” Shivani Mehta, Baya Pharmacy’s director of clinical scie…