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APRIL 6, 2018

Subcommittee Points to a Turf War

Years after NECC, contamination still rampant

All drugs should be compounded under suitable quality standards, but who should be ensuring those standards among traditional compounders and outsourcing facilities was debated at a 2018 House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing.

In written testimony, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, cited a litany of manufacturing problems at compounding facilities, including mold contamination of the type that caused lethal fungal infections during the New England Compounding Center