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425.0000 Prescription Medicines—Regulation 1591

Annotation 425.0590

(b) Specific Items Classified


425.0590 Optifast 70 and Optifast 800. Optifast 70 and Optifast 800 are used as a total meal replacement in connection with a weight loss program. Patients participating in the weight loss program are medically supervised by a physician. Optifast products are available by prescription only and are not available to the general public. Even though Optifast 70 and Optifast 800 do not qualify as "complete dietary foods" under Regulation 1591(b)(1). Accordingly, because these products must be furnished to patient by physicians pursuant to a medically supervised program for treatment of obesity, they are nontaxable under Regulation 1591(a)(2). 3/16/92.