The laws will be among the strongest in the country, said Kevin
Outterson, a law professor at Boston University and a member of the
expert panel that advised the state on how to curb abuses by companies
like the New England Compounding Center, the Framingham pharmacy that
made the tainted drug responsible for the nationwide meningitis
outbreak.
The legislation would establish strict licensing requirements for
compounding sterile drugs; let the state assess fines against pharmacies
that break its rules; protect whistle-blowers who work in compounding
pharmacies; and reorganize the state pharmacy board to include more
members who are independent of the industry and fewer who are part of
it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/us/massachusetts-plans-stricter-control-of-compounding-pharmacies.html?_r=0
