EVANSVILLE — When the U.S. Senate began its August recess Friday, it also put off voting on a bill that extends regulation to pharmacies disseminating unsafe drugs.
Introduced by a health committee in May, the Pharmaceutical Compounding Quality and Accountability Act is a response to an outbreak of fungal meningitis and other conditions last fall that afflicted more than 700 people in 20 states — dozens of people in Indiana and at least two in Evansville — and claimed 61 lives.
An alternative bill was drafted in the House of Representatives, but it has not been presented to a committee.
Indiana’s senators apparently have not reached a final position on the bill.
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