updated 4:22 PM EDT, Wed October 10, 2012
(CNN) -- When the job offer came from the Food and Drug
Administration in the winter of 2005, Sarah Sellers jumped at the chance.
It was her "dream job," she says,
and she picked up her family and moved from Chicago to Washington.
Two years later, she left in
frustration, unable, she says, to do the job she was hired to do: help clean up
compounding pharmacies.
Compound pharmacists create
customized medication solutions for patients for whom manufactured
pharmaceuticals won't work, according to the International Academy of
Compounding Pharmacists.
Those mixed-batch drugs can range
from children's cough syrup -- like adding grape flavor -- to complex
concoctions that treat cancer, according to Kevin Outterson, an associate
professor of health law and bioethics at Boston University.
As a young pharmacist, Sellers
had worked in a compounding pharmacy and was shocked by what she describes as
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