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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Republican report: FDA received complaints for years on pharmacy linked to meningitis outbreak

WASHINGTON — House Republicans said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration should have acted years earlier to close the Massachusetts pharmacy responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak tied to contaminated medications.
A report issued by Republicans blasts the FDA for failing to act on years of complaints about problematic drugs and practices at the New England Compounding Center. The compounding pharmacy produced tainted pain injections that have sickened more than 700 Americans and killed 53 others.
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