In 2006, Massachusetts regulators responded to complaints about the New England Compounding Center by enlisting an Illinois firm to review the operations of the pharmacy now at the center of the national meningitis outbreak. The chief executive of that firm, the Globe has learned, was awaiting trial on a fraud indictment.
Pharmacy Support Inc., founded by Ross A. Caputo, inspected the Framingham facility and eventually found it to be satisfactory, helping it avoid probation by the state pharmacy board. Caputo was later convicted and imprisoned for fraud, involving a product blamed for blinding people.
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Actually - NO ONE saw this coming.
It appears the Massachusetts Department of Public Health regulators were sleeping at the job. Or perhaps they didn't understand what was their job?
So, what happens when the state Administrators AND the state Regulators don't know their job?
Chaos, harm and the ostriches putting their heads deeper into their holes.
The Federal Regulators need to look closer at the regulatory contract they have with the state.
Let's start with the basics... and have new laws dis-allowing pharmacy production and trash dumps within a mile of each other...