Monterey, CA Compounded Drugs Can Have Pros And Cons

I have written a number of times on my blog about pharmacies which use the compounding process to make specialized drugs.  Local pharmacies like Ordway can come up with concoctions designed specifically for you by your physician.  However, there is potential danger when pharmacies try to come up with their own concoctions and market it to the masses.  In the most egregious cases, these pharmacies produce unsafe products which have not been approved by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that can cause severe health problems, even death.  In the worst example yet, two senior executives of New England Compounding Center (N.E.C.C.0 were charged with racketeering and murder after they sold tainted drugs which gave people fungal meningitis resulting in 64 deaths.  “Senior N.E.C.C. pharmacists knew that, despite the filthy conditions at N.E.C.C., the drugs that they made were not properly tested for sterility,” Carmen Ortiz, the United States Attorney for Massachusetts, told The New York Times.  If you are considering taking a compounded drug, talk to your doctor.  You are probably better off getting it from a local pharmacy rather than a firm that is marketing drugs nationwide.