Compounding center or necc. I want to accept and my deepest condolences to anyone who has lost a loved one in this tragedy. Thirtytwo people have died. Including three with in my congressional district, one of the persons who lived right up the street from me. Well over 400 people have been sickened for making this one of the worst Public Health disasters ever caused by a contaminated drug. Before this outbreak, with the fda had conducted three separate inductions of inspections with necc. But history is even more expensive with necc, involving at least 12 separate complaints involving necc or its pharmacists. Since necc opened in 1998, over the course of these inspections, regulators noted the same kinds of problems at issue in the current outbreak. Problems with serialization and in violation of its own license. Back in 2002, several adverse events were reported to fda involving patients who had received steroid injections made by the necc. Fda followed up and inspected it. Just six
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