The Food and Drug Administration is sounding alarm bells, warning health care providers that an injectible drug produced by a compounding pharmacy in Tennessee has been implicated in more than a dozen illnesses. If the story sounds eerily familiar, that’s because it is.
Last year’s outbreak of fungal meningitis that has now resulted in more than 740 cases of serious illness and claimed the lives of 55 individuals was also the result of tainted medication, and, in both cases, the manufacturing pharmacies were producing and distributing medicines to clinics and hospitals across the country without FDA approval and oversight for manufacturing quality. Such incidents appear to be happening with increased frequency, given a current lack of clarity in law.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/legal-loopholes-compound-drug-safety-problems-92589.html#ixzz2Vy1NryZh
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