Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Washington Post: FDA enlists state pharmacy boards in push for more regulation of compounding pharmacies


SILVER SPRING, Md. — The head of the Food and Drug Administration renewed her push Wednesday for new laws to help police pharmacies like the one that triggered a deadly meningitis outbreak, even as members of Congress expressed little interest in cooperating with the agency.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg met with state pharmacy regulators at a meeting to discuss the oversight of compounding pharmacies like the New England Compounding Center, the company which triggered a now 3-month-old outbreak of rare fungal meningitis.
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