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About Our Business

We are passionate about custom-tailoring drug therapies to meet the
needs of the individual patient, as opposed to the backwards approach
of "one-size-fits-all" that is prevalent amongst the common medical
thinking in America.

We are firmly devoted to our slogan: "Your Problem-Solving Drug
Therapy Specialists". We will either intensely research and offer the
best therapy option(s), or we will refer you to someone that will.

We have many positive, established  professional relationships with
various types of practitioners in the west-coast region, and are
ever-developing a nationally-recognized compounding pharmacy
practice.

Our state-of-the-art compounding-only laboratory is specifically
engineered to meet the stringent demands of USP 797 and USP 795
standards (United States Pharmacopeia).

We have a highly-trained staff of professionals, including
Sterile-Compounding-Certified Pharmacy Doctors and Board-Certified
Registered Pharmacy Technicians.
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LA Times Article, Originally Printed December 1, 1998

Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles, Calif.  
Author: LEO SMITH
Date: Dec 1, 1998
Ventura County Business

“Custom Medicines Just the Prescription for Couple's Pharmacy”

Westlake Village businessman Tony Park was a rebellious youth, determined not to grow up to be a
pharmacist like his father. In some ways he accomplished his goal, in some ways he didn't.

While his father, Jae Park, continues to operate several traditional pharmacies in Los Angeles, Tony Park and
his wife, Melissa Shubb Park, have opened the Park Compounding Pharmacy. Unlike the average pharmacy,
Park Compounding sells medications customized to meet individual patient preferences and requirements.

The pharmacy lab and retail operation is in a 1,500-square-foot suite in the Westlake Office Park.

"My father owns several independent pharmacies, typical mom-and-pop corner drugstores, and I see where
they're headed," Tony Park said. "I honestly don't think the typical independent pharmacy can survive in the
market these days with insurances and HMOs being the way they are. People who want to practice their own
business have to go into some specialty."

Like compounding pharmacies nationwide, the Parks' venture is aimed at filling a niche in the prescription
medication industry, offering alternatives to what the major drug companies manufacture for medical, dental
and veterinary purposes.

Clients typically are those who have found little success with or prefer not to use standard prescription drugs
and are looking for other options, Park said. Physicians and retail pharmacists refer patients who need
medicines with uncommon dosages, strengths, flavors or other characteristics not available in the mass
market.

"It could be the person who is . . . lactose intolerant, and a lot of medications have lactose as fillers," Park said.
"There are some people who are allergic to certain dyes."

Jennifer Sargent, membership development coordinator for the International Academy of Compounding
Pharmacies, said there is a growing awareness and demand for these specially designed medications, along
with popular treatments of the day like Viagra and Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy.

The academy of compound pharmacists is a 1,200-member referral and educational organization that has seen
its ranks nearly double since 1995.

"I believe compound pharmacies are growing in a huge way, if people can just understand it's not just quack
pharmacists taking drugs and mixing them together, it's more of an art and a skill," Sargent said. "Our more
active members are ones who are older and have established relationships with patients and doctors. It takes
a lot of money and time to invest into that, but it can be very lucrative for a pharmacist."

As much as finding a profitable niche, Park said, the skill of compounding medications offers challenges that he
and his wife were not finding elsewhere. Park was manager of a Walgreens pharmacy and his wife was a
pharmacist with Sav-on Drugs.

"We both graduated from the University of Pacific, where we learned the basics of drug therapy as well as the
mechanisms and physiology of the body," he said. "When we worked in a retail setting, we didn't use any of
that--we were taking a drug manufactured by a drug manufacturer and repackaging it for patients."

Park said his goal by the end of the pharmacy's first year is to be filling 25 to 30 prescriptions a day. Eventually,
he said, he would like to expand further into Ventura County.

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