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Co-owner of pharmacy at center of meningitis outbreak was faulted [USA]
Pharmacist Barry Cadden, co-owner of the Framingham pharmacy [New England Compounding Center] blamed for the deadly national meningitis outbreak, has a long history of not cooperating with federal regulators...[according to a memo prepared for a House committee hearing on the outbreak]...[The] crisis has sickened 438 people and killed 32 who contracted a rare form of fungal meningitis from a contaminated steroid made by the pharmacy...Pharmacy spokesman Andrew Paven said he could not comment on the memo...“It is clear that NECC [New England Compounding Center] knowingly disregarded sterility tests, prepared medicine in unsanitary conditions, and violated their pharmacy license,” [said] Dr. Lauren Smith, interim commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...