Washington Post: FDA inspects specialty pharmacies in targeted action

By Lena H. Sun and Kimberly Kindy,

Mar 01, 2013 08:46 PM EST

The Washington Post Updated: Friday, March 1, 2:46 PM

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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