FOXNews.com: Massachusetts lawmaker seeks greater pharmacy regulation

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Massachusetts lawmaker seeks greater pharmacy regulation Nov 1st 2012, 17:44 Published November 01, 2012 Associated Press FRAMINGHAM, Mass. –  A Massachusetts lawmaker says he'll introduce legislation to increase federal oversight of specialty pharmacies like the one linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak. Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Markey made the announcement Thursday outside the now-closed New England Compounding Center in Framingham. A tainted steroid made by the center caused a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to 28 deaths across the country. Compounding pharmacies custom-mix solutions that generally aren't commercially available. They aren't regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Under Markey's legislation, to be introduced Friday, such pharmacies would be FDA-regulated, if they produce larger quantities of a drug for general distribution. Officials say that's what the company appeared to be doing, though they were only permitted to produce patient-specific prescriptions. The bill also requires pharmacies to label compounded drugs to show they haven't been FDA-tested.

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