UPDATED 16:07 PM EST, January 4, 2013
BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick on Friday proposed tighter regulations on sterile compounding pharmacies following a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts company.
The proposal comes as the New England Compounding Center is trying to place blame for the outbreak on a cleaning contractor that provided once-a-month services to NECC's cleanroom facilities.
The outbreak linked to NECC has been blamed for 39 deaths and hundreds of illnesses nationwide.
