The Pharmacy Compounding Accrediting Board ( PCAB) provides quality accreditation but the New England Compounding Center was not a member.
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The Pharmacy Compounding Accrediting Board also provides additional quality assurance recognitions.
The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy licensed the compounding pharmacy in 1985, the state health agency said.
Pallimed's move comes after steroid injections distributed by a different Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, the now-closed New England Compounding Center, were linked to a deadly, multistate fungal meningitis outbreak.
Investigators learned the IV bags were contaminated from a compounding pharmacy in Alabama called Meds IV Pharmacy.
Update: Here is t he FDA statement recommending that doctors not use any of the medicines made by this compounding pharmacy.
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Officials with the compounding pharmacy couldn't be immediately reached for comment Friday.
Last month, however, the FDA issued a 483 inspection report to an Axium unit called Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy for a host of manufacturing violations.
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The compounding pharmacy scandal has caused still more collateral damage and, this time, it involves one of the largest supermarket chains in the US. Who are we talking about?
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We have endured a series of drug and device safety disasters (Vioxx, Avandia, Ketek, defective defibrillator leads, and recently, compounding pharmacy oversight, and the list goes on) that have harmed many of our fellow citizens.
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The FDA, you may recall, has recently made a concerted effort to inspect compounders in the wake of the fungal meningitis outbreak that was linked to a pharmacy called the New England Compounding Center.
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In addition, the Board of Registration in Pharmacy has voted to revoke permanently the New England Compounding Center's license to operate in Massachusetts as well as the licenses of the company's three principal pharmacists, Patrick said.
New England Compounding Center was not a PCAB-accredited pharmacy.
Given recent events, it would appear likely that Avastin, which is typically made in bulk quantities, would be included on such a list and more states will adopt the same policy, especially after the FDA and state health and pharmacy officials hold a scheduled meeting on December 19 to discuss compounding.
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