Section 27
SEC. 27. Pharmacist required and compensation.&mdashEvery pharmacy, drugstore or hospital pharmacy whether owned by the government or a private person or firm shall at all times when open for business be under the personal and immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist: Provided, That no pharmacist shall have personal supervision of more than one such establishment. In cases where a drug establishment operates in more than one shift, each shift must be under the supervision and control of a registered pharmacist. Drug or pharmaceutical laboratories or similar establishments engaged in the repackaging, manufacture or sale of drugs, biologic products and pharmaceutical products in quantities greatly in excess of the therapeutic doses of each substance; such processes involving the preparation, quality control or repackaging of said products shall for each respective operation be under the direct and immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist, or, in the sale of Pharmaceuticals, medicines and drugs at wholesale, such business shall be conducted under the immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist practicing only in such establishment. Every pharmacist employed as such in any of the establishments mentioned in this section whose capitalization is not less than ten thousand pesos shall receive, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a minimum compensation similar to that of government pharmacists.