Compounding pharmacies will now be subject to state review. These pharmacies change medicine to fit the needs of a particular patient. An example of this is a dose not usually made for infants. Or avoiding a particular part of the medicine if someone is allergic, for example, flu immunizations are grown in eggs and therefore people who are allergic cannot receive them but a compounding pharmacy could create it differently, without the egg.
These pharmacies have not been regulated in the same way as traditional pharmacies are but that is changing after a meningitis outbreak was traced back to a contaminated steroid created in a compounding pharmacy.
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