Showing posts with label Inmate claiming improper storage of compounded preparation. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Inmate claiming improper storage of compounded preparation

Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 2:00 am
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's prison system is improperly storing expired doses of a new lethal injection drug provided by an Oklahoma pharmacy not licensed to do business in Missouri, attorneys for a death row inmate facing execution this month said in a complaint filed Friday. Attorneys for Herbert Smulls have asked the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy to recall an "expired, unsafe" batch of the sedative pentobarbital provided to Missouri by an unidentified Oklahoma compounding pharmacy. The complaint says the pharmacy gave erroneous instructions to store the drug at room temperature, a violation of accepted pharmaceutical standards.

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