james_edin said:They are two different exemptions from the same federal requirements and they buy different things.
Agreeing with james_edin, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Worth adding the genuine exception, because it is real and narrow: a change made for an identified patient where the prescriber determines it produces a significant clinical difference for that patient. A grid of fixed doses offered to everybody is not that, whatever the intake form says.
Worth separating that from compounded supply, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.