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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Markey's Legislation to Be Introduced Friday and To be FDA-Regulated if Large Producers
Under Markey’s legislation, to be introduced Friday, such pharmacies would be
FDA-regulated, if they produce larger quantities of a drug for general
distribution. Officials say that’s what the company appeared to be doing, though
they were only permitted to produce patient-specific prescriptions.
The bill also requires pharmacies to label compounded drugs to show they
haven’t been FDA-tested.
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Mass. lawmaker seeks greater pharmacy regulation
By JAY LINDSAY
Associated Press /
November 1, 2012
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts lawmaker says he'll introduce
legislation to increase federal oversight of specialty pharmacies like the one
linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Markey made the announcement Thursday outside the
now-closed New England Compounding Center in Framingham.
A tainted steroid made by the center caused a fungal meningitis outbreak
linked to 28 deaths across the country.
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