FDA Inspections Triggered More Pharmacy Recalls in 2015
This article was originally published in The Gold Sheet
Executive Summary
Agency forces pharmacies to acknowledge they haven't been assuring the sterility of the injectable drugs they compound, spurring recalls and perhaps hope and change for their quality systems.
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