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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Tennessee gets new rules on compounding pharmacies February 25, 2014
More than six months after they were first approved, new rules governing the operation of compounding pharmacies in Tennessee have passed legal muster and gone into effect.
The rules, issued by the state Board of Pharmacy, were drawn up in reaction to a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis that hit particularly hard in Tennessee. Sixteen Tennessee patients died after being injected with fungus-tainted spinal steroids shipped from a Massachusetts drug compounding firm.
Reginald Dillard, executive director of the pharmacy board, said the final version of the rules won approval from the state attorney general and went into effect late last month
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The rules, issued by the state Board of Pharmacy, were drawn up in reaction to a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis that hit particularly hard in Tennessee. Sixteen Tennessee patients died after being injected with fungus-tainted spinal steroids shipped from a Massachusetts drug compounding firm.
Reginald Dillard, executive director of the pharmacy board, said the final version of the rules won approval from the state attorney general and went into effect late last month
continue to read here
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