The owner and director of the specialty pharmacy tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak has declined to testify before a congressional committee investigating the matter. Barry Cadden, co-founder of the New England Compound Center, told lawmakers he would use his Fifth Amendment right to not answer questions in order to avoid self-incrimination. Before Cadden spoke, Congressman Fred Upton lit into government regulators for missing the issue a decade ago.
Upton also ripped the Food and Drug Administration for not providing the information lawmakers had requested about the outbreak a month ago. To date, nearly 440 people have fallen ill and 32 have died, including a Cass County woman who passed away in Indiana after getting a shot of the tainted steroids for back pain. After he pled the Fifth, lawmakers continued to pepper Cadden with questions about the contamination.
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Upton also ripped the Food and Drug Administration for not providing the information lawmakers had requested about the outbreak a month ago. To date, nearly 440 people have fallen ill and 32 have died, including a Cass County woman who passed away in Indiana after getting a shot of the tainted steroids for back pain. After he pled the Fifth, lawmakers continued to pepper Cadden with questions about the contamination.
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