Published: Friday, December 27, 2013 at 8:36 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 27, 2013 at 8:36 p.m.
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The deaths of 64 people injected with contaminated drugs created by New England Compounding Center last year drew wide public attention because of the scale of the tragedy and the mistakes uncovered after the fact, but the incident was by no means isolated.
In 2007, three people died after being injected with a compounded drug made in a Texas pharmacy. Inspectors discovered that drugs' were six times as potent as the labels indicated. Tougher state oversight would have prevented the deaths, critics say.
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