Globe Staff
October 11, 2012
Governor Deval Patrick Wednesday accused the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis, which has sickened at least 137 people nationwide and killed 12, of misleading regulators and operating outside its license by shipping large batches of drugs across the country.
To ensure no others might be breaking the rules, the Board of Registration in Pharmacy took the extraordinary step of ordering all compounding pharmacies in Massachusetts to sign affidavits swearing they are complying with state regulations prohibiting compounders from mass-producing medications.
“What they were supposed to be doing is filling specific prescriptions for specific patients as I think any of us would understand a pharmacy to do,’’ said Patrick, referring to New England Compounding Center, the Framingham company whose injectable steroids are at the center of the outbreak. “What they were doing instead is making big batches and selling out of state as a manufacturer would, and that is certainly outside their state license.
“It does seem like the agencies both at the state and the federal level may have been misled by some of the information we were given,’’ the governor told reporters. Continue to read article here.
Governor Deval Patrick Wednesday accused the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis, which has sickened at least 137 people nationwide and killed 12, of misleading regulators and operating outside its license by shipping large batches of drugs across the country.
To ensure no others might be breaking the rules, the Board of Registration in Pharmacy took the extraordinary step of ordering all compounding pharmacies in Massachusetts to sign affidavits swearing they are complying with state regulations prohibiting compounders from mass-producing medications.
“What they were supposed to be doing is filling specific prescriptions for specific patients as I think any of us would understand a pharmacy to do,’’ said Patrick, referring to New England Compounding Center, the Framingham company whose injectable steroids are at the center of the outbreak. “What they were doing instead is making big batches and selling out of state as a manufacturer would, and that is certainly outside their state license.
“It does seem like the agencies both at the state and the federal level may have been misled by some of the information we were given,’’ the governor told reporters. Continue to read article here.
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