Tougher pharmacy rules eyed

Hune: Proposed legislation could have prevented meningitis deaths

Bills requiring out-of-state medical compounders to have one accountable pharmacist could have prevented a fungal meningitis outbreak that claimed eight Livingston County lives, state Sen. Joe Hune, R-Hamburg Township, said.
Last week, Hune’s legislation placing new regulations on compounding pharmacies in Michigan and those doing business in Michigan was approved in the Senate Health Policy Committee.
The bills were in response to the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroids from the New England Compounding Center, or NECC, in Massachusetts. The tainted pain injections were administered at multiple Michigan clinics, including Michigan Pain Specialists in Genoa Township.
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