Federal Grand Jury Indicts 14 People Linked To 2012 Meningitis Outbreak
The indictments were handed down against company officials, pharmacists and technicians who worked for the Massachusetts company responsible for tainted drugs that led to 64 deaths.
Bloomberg:
Meningitis Outbreak That Killed 64 Spurs U.S. Indictment
Fourteen officials, pharmacists and technicians tied to the Massachusetts company involved in a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges including racketeering, conspiracy and second-degree murder. The New England Compounding Center's tainted drugs, including a steroid administered by spinal injection to treat pain, infected more than 700 people in 20 states, U.S. officials have said. The outbreak was caused by sloppy clean-room practices, including routine failure to properly sterilize drugs, according to the indictment unsealed Wednesday in Boston. (Larson and Lawrence, 12/17)
The Wall Street Journal's Pharmalot:
Compound Pharmacy Owners And Employees Arrested For Meningitis Outbreak
Fourteen former owners or employees of the New England Compounding Center were charged in connection with a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people nationwide and was traced to tainted drug injections made by the pharmacy, according to a federal indictment. (Silverman, 12/17)
Los Angeles Times:
14 Indicted In Deadly 2012 Meningitis Outbreak
Fourteen people connected to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy have been arrested on charges stemming from the 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people who received tainted drugs, officials said Wednesday. In the high-profile criminal case involving contaminated medicine, Barry Cadden, a co-founder of the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass., and Glenn Adam Chin, a pharmacist who was in charge of the sterile room, face the most serious charges, according to the 131-count indictment. (Muskal, 12/17)
The Associated Press:
14 Arrested, Charged In Meningitis Outbreak
More than 750 people in 20 states were sickened and 64 died after they contracted fungal meningitis and other illnesses from tainted steroids made by the company. The steroids given were for medical purposes, not for body building; most received the injections for back pain. Cadden and Chin are charged with causing the deaths of patients in several states, including Michigan, Tennessee and Indiana. The others charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday face charges ranging from mail fraud to the introduction of adulterated and misbranded drugs into interstate commerce. (12/17)