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States Face Huge Task In Tracking Meningitis-Tainted Drugs

Posted by timothy on from the call-all-your-former-spinal-tap-partners dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Confronted with a growing meningitis scare, states are coming under enormous pressure to meet federal requests that they contact more than 1,000 hospitals and clinics that received any injectable drugs from the company at the center of the deadly outbreak."

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  1. Re:The FDA blew it, among others by PPH · · Score: 4, Informative

    Compounding pharmacies are regulated by the states, not the FDA the way drug manufacturers are.

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