By FRED HIERS
HALIFAX MEDIA SERVICES
Published: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 10:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, December 29, 2013 at 10:47 p.m.
It was too much for federal regulators to ignore and the public to tolerate: 64 people dead after a Massachusetts pharmacy shipped contaminated drugs to 23 states.
The New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts had already been in hot water with both federal and state regulators for a decade leading up to the debacle. The Massachusetts violations had left many angry national lawmakers asking why federal regulators had not closed the business down, much less allowed it to pump thousands of doses of fungal-contaminated drugs into the patient stream.
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