Ingredient Labeling

When most people think of a pharmacy they often envision a person in a white lab coat weighing out different medicines. As a tool of the trade, scales have always been closely associated with pharmacies. For example, in It’s A Wonderful Life, Mr. Gower’s pharmacy has a scale, as do most movie depictions of pharmacies.

While many movie depictions of doctors and other professionals are fanciful or exaggerated, in this case they are accurate. For prescription weighing in the United States all pharmacies are required by law to have a Class A prescription balance.