Framingham Pharmacy Reacts to State's Decision to Revoke License
"it is hard to imagine that the (Massachusetts) Board (Of Registry in Phramacy) has not been fully apprised of both the manner and scale of the company’s operations," said New England Compounding Center's counsel in a statement.
Gov. Deval Patrick, in a press conference Tuesday, announced New England Compounding Center has had its pharmacy license permanently revoked and will be the subject of a federal criminal investigation. He said the Framingham company will never practice again in Massachusetts. The Framingham company has been at the center of a deadly national meningitis outbreak. Federal health officials say more than 300 people have been infected with fungal meningitis, in 17 states, and 23 are dead. Health officials have tied a steroid produced by the Waverly Street company to the fungal meningitis outbreak. Tuesday evening, NECC, through it's attorney, released a statement. "NECC has had a long standing practice of working closely and cooperatively with …
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kylon
11:37 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
This is just tragic. more ›