Friday, January 03, 2014

Pharmacy industry faces uncertain future

From the Herald Tribune:

During U.S. Senate and House committee testimony and public discussions, FDA officials tripped over themselves trying to give explanations and bemoaned that their authority was not clear.
State regulators, including those in Florida, did not fare much better as federal and state studies showed that most individual state pharmacy boards were operating with little more than blinders. Almost none knew what kinds of drugs their pharmacies were making, how much of it or to what other states they were sending it to.

More here.  http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140102/ARTICLE/301029995#gsc.tab=0