Last August, the Council on Credentialing in Pharmacy (CCP) released its Pharmacy Technician Credentialing

Framework. With an announced goal of protecting “public health and safety ” and assisting pharmacists in “providing optimal medication therapy outcomes, ” this document de-tails the Council’s position on and recommendations for consistent credentialing of individuals who work as phar-macy technicians in a format intended to provide guide-lines for policy development “regarding the education, training, certification, and regulation of pharmacy techni-cians.”1 Before proceeding, in order to avoid misconceptions, it is important to understand what the CCP Framework is not. First and foremost, it is not a law, a rule, a regula-tion, or even a bill introduced to a legislative body. Un-like some quasigovernmental organizations, such as the United Stated Pharmacopeia, CCP has no authority to se