Showing posts with label Mass. lawmaker to unveil compounding pharmacy bill. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Mass. lawmaker to unveil compounding pharmacy bill AP / July 9, 2013


BOSTON (AP) — Beacon Hill lawmakers are preparing to unveil a bill designed to tighten regulations on the state’s compounding pharmacy industry.
The industry has come under scrutiny after a fungal meningitis outbreak traced to tainted steroids produced at the now-shuttered New England Compounding Pharmacy in Framingham killed 58 people and sickened more than 740 others.
The Legislature’s Committee on Public Health has been holding public hearings and is planning to recommend a bill Tuesday that would clamp down on the industry.
Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, co-chairman of the committee, is planning continue to read here