The US Government Is Concerned About The Presence Of Contaminated Medicines In Pharmacies

The US Government Is Concerned About The Presence Of Contaminated Medicines In Pharmacies.
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday began the development of regulating compounding pharmacies, which spawn supplementary drug combinations or modify drugs to suit individual patient needs. Under the Drug Quality and Security Act, signed into deduction Nov 27, 2013 by President Barack Obama, these pharmacies are being encouraged to up with the FDA. The agency will then classify them as outsourcing pharmacies, enabling them to sell size drugs to hospitals and other health-care facilities. The law was prompted by the deaths last year of 64 bodies who received fungus-contaminated steroid medications that were given in injections to treat back and joint pain.

An additional 750 society in 20 states were sickened by the contaminated drug. The medication was made by the now-shuttered New England Compounding Center, in Framingham, Mass., according to federal vigour officials. "The fractional of the law related to compounding is a step forward by creating a unknown pathway in which compounders register with FDA as an outsourcing facility," FDA commissioner Dr Margaret Hamburg said during a Monday afternoon also pressurize briefing.

If a compounding pharmacy registers with the agency, hospitals and other health-care providers will be able to secure products compounded by companies that are subject to FDA oversight. The protection includes inspections and adherence to "good manufacturing practices".