Drug Compounder Acquitted Of Murder In Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Case

 
• By Bowman Cox

Jury convicts Barry Cadden on racketeering and mail fraud allegations for shipping contaminated methylprednisolone acetate for spinal injection, but clears NECC's head pharmacist on all 25 counts of second degree murder in seminal case that spurred legislation enabling major US FDA crackdown on injectable drug compounding sterility assurance practices.

contaminated vial of methylprednisolone
Contaminated vials like this one resulted in the largest public health crisis ever caused by a pharmaceutical product. • Source: Justice Department trial exhibit

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