Unsafe and Contaminated Medications Released To American's

The Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle reported that “the federal

government” has “unsealed a 37-count indictment

charging Med Prep Consulting Inc. with wire fraud and

violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act

(FDCA).” The company, “together with its owner and

president, Gerald Tighe, and pharmacist-in-charge,

Stephen Kalinoski, allegedly introduced adulterated and

misbranded drugs into the commerce stream and

misbranded drugs with the intent to defraud and mislead

the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Med

Prep’s customers, who consisted of hospitals and other

healthcare providers.” The Daily Eagle added,

“According to the indictment, Med Prep processed

numerous drugs...in purportedly sterile conditions. In an

effort to gain market share, Med Prep repeatedly

misrepresented to its healthcare provider customers that

 it adhered to, and in some areas exceeded, industry

standards and laws applicable to sterile drug

preparation.” FDA Commissioner Hamburg said, “The

production of unsafe and contaminated drug products

poses a serious threat to the health of the American

public and cannot be tolerated.”

Meningitis Outbreak and Deaths Linked to Tainted Vaccines!

Pharmacist charged over meningitis outbreak pleads not guilty.

 

The  2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people and sickened 700 in 20 states is due in court on Thursday to respond to claims that he knowingly shipped a tainted medication.

 

 

 

Glenn Adam Chin, 46, a former pharmacist at the now-defunct New England Compound Company, which produced the tainted steroid that sparked the outbreak, was arrested last week as he boarded a flight to Hong Kong for a family wedding.
He was charged with one count of mail fraud for approving the shipment of 17,000 tainted vials of the medication, used for back pain, despite knowing they had not been properly sterilized or tested, federal prosecutors in Boston said.
His attorney at the time described the arrest as a publicity stunt, saying that Chin, a father of two young children who lives in Canton, Massachusetts, had no plans to flee the country but was simply attending a family function.
Chin was ordered to remain under house arrest until his family returned to the United States.

 

 

        Providing details of the case, the AP  notes that “prosecutors say Chin oversaw the sterile clean rooms” compounding center in Framingham, “which custom-mixed medications in bulk and where tainted steroids blamed for the 2012 outbreak were made.” Chin is “accused of participating in a scheme to fraudulently cause one lot to be labeled as injectable, meaning it was sterile and fit for human use.” That medication “was shipped to Michigan Pain Specialists” in Brighton, MI, and injected into patients. Subsequently, 217 patients were infected with fungal meningitis, with 15 of them losing their lives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eight Car Makers Join in the Recall of Exploding Airbags



When designed correctly, airbags will save lives. According to the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, airbags have saved approximately 35,000 lives since 1987. However, when airbags are defectively designed, they create a high risk of severe injury and death. As of 2009, defective airbags were responsible for 296 deaths, 59 life threatening injuries, and countless severe injuries.

Signs that you have  defective airbags are when one of the following occurs:

• The airbag inflates too quickly and aggressively, violently hitting the occupant in the face; or

• The airbag ruptures before inflation, spewing pieces of metal into the occupant’s body.
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NHTSA has opened an investigation into the issue and says that it knows of six incidents of ruptured bags and three injuries in high-humidity Florida and Puerto Rico. As of mid-July, eight car manufacturers including Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, and Subaru had joined in the recall of these defective Takata airbags. In the latest actions:

• Honda recalled 1.02 million vehicles in North America and 2.03 million worldwide. They were built from 2000 through 2005 and include some models of Civic, CR-V, Odyssey and Element. With this expansion, air bag recalls have affected nearly 4 million of the company’s older vehicles in North America.

• Nissan recalled 755,000 vehicles worldwide built from 2001 through 2003, with about a quarter-million Pathfinder, Cube and Infiniti FX35 models in North America.

• Mazda recalled nearly 160,000 vehicles made from 2002 through 2004, with about 15,000 in North America, including RX-8 and early Mazda6 sedans.

• Regional recalls in the U.S. by Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota, BMW, Ford and Chrysler of certain vehicles in humid climates. NHTSA estimates that 1.5 million vehicles could be affected — the totals and lists of vehicles still were being compiled.

• Subaru is recalling nearly 8,600 Subaru Legacy cars, Outback wagons, Baja crossovers, and Impreza cars.

Since 2008, more than 10 million cars containing the defective Takata airbags have been recalled.