By Kay Lazar
Globe Staff November 07, 2012The director of the state pharmacy board, James D. Coffey, has been fired and the board’s attorney, Susan Manning, has been placed on administrative leave for allegedly ignoring a complaint in July that New England Compounding Center was distributing bulk shipments of drugs to hospitals in Colorado, in violation of its state licenses.
New England Compounding is the Framingham pharmacy blamed for a national outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by contaminated steroids it produced between May and August of this year.
The Colorado Board of Pharmacy alerted the US Food and Drug Administration and also contacted Coffey on July 26 about the problem, and Coffey forwarded the information to Manning and department inspectors, but failed to order an investigation, according to a source close to the investigation.
Coffey also failed to alert officials at the state Department of Public Health, the agency that oversees the state pharmacy board, the source said. And there is no evidence that Coffey or Manning alerted the board itself.
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