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A STATE SENATE COMMITTEE IS RE-
PHARMACIES IN MASSACHUSETTS.
22NEWS STATE HOUSE REPORTER
THEY'RE CALLING FOR TOUGHER
REGULATIONS ON THE INDUSTRY.
TO DATE, A NATIONWIDE MENINGITIS
OUTBREAK HAS LEFT 37 PEOPLE DEAD
AND NEARLY 600 PEOPLE SICKENED
BECAUSE OF TAINTED MEDICATIONS
LINKED TO A MASSACHUSETTS
COMPOUNDING PHARMACY. AT A
COMMITTEE HEARING, COMPOUNDING
PHARMACY GROUPS BLAMED STATE
REGULATORS FOR DROPPING THE BALL
ON INSPECTING THE NEW ENGLAND
COMPOUNDING PHARMACY, WHICH IS
AT THE HEART OF THE CONTROVERSY.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MARK MONTIGNY
SAID THE STATE WOULD NEVER HAVE
REGULATE THE INDSUTRY AND THAT
MONTIGNY THEN ACCUSED
DIMINISHING EFFORTS TO INCREASE
INDUSTRY.
: IT'S IN YOUR INTEREST NOT TO
WATCHING THINGS BECAUSE THEY
HAVE MORE RESOURCES TO HIRE MORE
JOB. THE STATE BOARDS DON'T AND
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF
COMPOUNDING PHARMACIES SAID
THEIR PRACTICES ARE ADEQUATE,
BUT NEED TO BE ENFORCED BETTER.
THE SENATE COMMITTEE IS ALSO
PLANS TO CONDUCT A HEARING ON
THE STATE LAB SCANDAL, WHERE A
CHEMIST WAS RECENTLY INDICTED ON
27 CHARGES FOR DELIBERATELY
SAMPLES IN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
CRIMINAL CASES. IN BOSTON,
CHRISTINE LEE, 22 NEWS.