Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Bill seeks to strengthen oversight of compounding pharmacies By Kay Lazar | GLOBE STAFF

Massachusetts pharmacists who specially mix injectable and other sterile medications will be required to take continuing education classes, and their pharmacies will have to provide patients with a staffed hotline number to report problems, under proposed legislation to be unveiled Tuesday that is aimed at preventing a repeat of the deadly fungal meningitis outbreak blamed on a Framingham speciality pharmacy.
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