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Washington Post: FDA inspects specialty pharmacies in targeted action.
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Federal regulators found dozens of safety lapses
at four large specialty pharmacies during surprise inspections conducted over
the past two weeks in response to a deadly meningitis outbreak last fall that
was linked to tainted drugs, according to records and interviews.
The inspections were the first targeted enforcement actions against the
specialty pharmacies since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found filthy
conditions at a Massachusetts pharmacy that shipped contaminated steroid shots
to 23 states. The shots caused the outbreak that has so far killed 48 people and
sickened another 666, making it the country’s worst drug disaster in several
decades.
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