Drugs produced by the New England Compounding Center were not put through the minimum procedures required to ensure sterility and were shipped to customers before the pharmacy’s own safety tests were completed, a state health official said Tuesday in announcing preliminary results of an inspection of the pharmacy at the heart of the national meningitis outbreak.
Investigators who visited the pharmacy in recent weeks found dirty lab equipment, a leaking boiler near the pharmacy’s “clean room,” and records that showed the pharmacy failed to properly maintain important sterilization tools, Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the state Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality, said during a State House press conference Tuesday afternoon.
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How is it possible that an Agency responsibile for ensuring the health of the state's residents is unable to recognize that "minimum procedures required to ensure sterility" were absent during their auditing survey?
And why are they allowed to operate such a business two doors down from a DUMP??!?!?!? That would seem to be the first rule change needed...
This is so big why haven't more heads at the State been fired ? This is the same agency that allowed thousands of criminals to be released due to falsified lab tests. Why hasn't the head of the Dept of Health been fired. What is patrick allowing this individual to stay on the job? This type of operation is unacceptable and has resulted in deaths and more deaths from released criminals.
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John Auerbach fell on his sword due to the fiasco at the Jamaica Plain Lab.
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HOW can it be that the DPH regulatory administration are inept and unable to understand the principles of health?
Many people wonder why there are so many infections within hospitals and following surgery and now this catastrophic spread of infections due to medications made in our state.
Look up stream . . . this is an administration with a conspicuously bad track record demonstrating lack of knowledge.
When was the number of state inspectors for the facilities cut? Was it during Romney's term as governor? He believes in less government oversight.