A Reader Reminds Us That Texas has already had an incident similiar to NECC; but as I have said before compounders and their advocates don't mention the case of Apothecure and the deaths adn other such incidents

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Kenneth Woliner, MD said...

Texas has already had a problem with adulterated drugs coming from their compounding pharmacies. ApotheCure killed 3 patients when they sent intravenous colchicine to Oregon (a state it didn't have a license to practice in), in which this drug was 8x overpotent. ApotheCure previously killed at least one patient with nonsterile steroids (causing meningitis, similar to NECC). Just because ApotheCure has been renamed "NuVision", doesn't mean this pharmacy isn't doing bad behaviors still. It seems the FDA

conducts inspections and strongly urges NuVision to recall its unsterile drugs (which it doesn't do). When another outbreak happens, who will be held responsible? I doubt it will be the pharmacy, as they will simply "declare bankruptcy", and re-register another pharmacy and start off fresh.