Thursday, May 1, 2014

The latest Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the Compounding Quality Act, a law signed by President Obama in November 2013, which seeks to fill the gaps in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) inspection and enforcement oversight of compounding pharmacies.
This law was enacted in the wake of a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak, linked to a Massachusetts drug compounding company. The outbreak caused more than 700 people to become ill and left sixty-four dead. Before the new law was passed, compounding pharmacies were primarily regulated by states, not the FDA.
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