Sunday, November 18, 2012

USATODAY: Chances to avert meningitis outbreak possibly missed

Records show that in April 2011, a Colorado state inspector came across evidence that New England Compounding had shipped drugs without patient-specific prescriptions, a requirement of state law.


4:16AM EST November 18. 2012 - NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- On May 10, 2011, long before the current deadly meningitis outbreak, an official in the FDA regional office in Denver sent an e-mail to a colleague in Boston detailing allegations that a Massachusetts drug compounder was illegally shipping drugs to Colorado hospitals.
The information came from Colorado state inspectors who had then passed the concerns along to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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