Massachusetts pharmacy blames cleaning association for meningitis outbreak


The Massachusetts compounding pharmacy related to a national meningitis conflict that has been blamed for 39 deaths and hundreds of illnesses is blaming a cleaning contractor.

The Boston Globe reports that attorneys for New England Compounding Center sent a minute to UniFirst Corp. perfectionist that it take authorised shortcoming for claims opposite a pharmacy.

UniFirst concurred that a auxiliary helped purify portions of a pharmacy’s cleanroom trickery in Framingham, though confirmed a cleaning services were singular and it was not obliged for a infested drugs. A orator called a claims “unfounded and but merit.”

Federal investigators found widespread justification of mold and other decay when they visited a pharmacy in October.

UniFirst perceived a minute final week and disclosed it in a filing Thursday with a Securities and Exchange Commission.

Source: Health Medicine Network