Showing posts with label Bill seeks to strengthen oversight of compounding pharmacies By Kay Lazar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill seeks to strengthen oversight of compounding pharmacies By Kay Lazar. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Bill seeks to strengthen oversight of compounding pharmacies By Kay Lazar | GLOBE STAFF

Massachusetts pharmacists who specially mix injectable and other sterile medications will be required to take continuing education classes, and their pharmacies will have to provide patients with a staffed hotline number to report problems, under proposed legislation to be unveiled Tuesday that is aimed at preventing a repeat of the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak blamed on a Framingham speciality pharmacy.
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