Senate bill compounding pharmacies News

The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a bill designed to tighten government oversight of pharmacies that custom-mix prescription drugs, in the wake of last year’s deadly meningitis outbreak tied to contaminated pain injections. The bill cleared a parliamentary hurdle on …

U.S. senators appeared close to finalizing a bill that would require pharmacies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines to submit to greater federal regulation. The proposed legislation comes in the wake of a meningitis outbreak last fall …