By Fred Hiers
Staff writer
Staff writer
Published: Monday, December 23, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 22, 2013 at 7:36 p.m.
The Florida Board of Pharmacy wants the public's trust.
It wants Floridians to trust that it can effectively regulate Florida pharmacies, that pharmacy-made drugs in Florida are safe, and that the industry is better today than a year ago when 64 people — including three in Ocala — died from contaminated medicines shipped from a Massachusetts pharmacy to 23 states.
Since the most deadly pharmacy compounding calamity in American history, the Florida Board of Pharmacy has beefed up some of its oversight. It has created a licensing process for pharmacies making sterile drugs like those produced with fatal results at the New England Compounding Center in hopes of keeping better track of what they are making and ensuring that they follow the rules
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