Hot Topic! Essential Read! USA TODAY: Bad feds, deadly meds: Column Rena Steinzor 9:06 a.m. EST February 28, 2015 FDA must be equipped to regulate compounding pharmacies.

In December, the Department of Justice indicted 14 people who worked at the New England Compounding Center. The company manufactured drugs in insanitary conditions that produced a fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people and made 751 gravely ill in 2012. One of the owners and a senior pharmacist face charges of racketeering and second-degree murder. more