1.0Public Citizenhttps://www.citizen.orgDiane Krauthamerhttps://www.citizen.org/author/dkrauthamer/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="axtxTDTEjr"><a href="https://www.citizen.org/article/response-to-senate-help-committees-questions-regarding-compounding-pharmacies/">Response to Senate HELP Committee’s Questions Regarding Compounding Pharmacies</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.citizen.org/article/response-to-senate-help-committees-questions-regarding-compounding-pharmacies/embed/#?secret=axtxTDTEjr" width="600" height="338" title="“Response to Senate HELP Committee’s Questions Regarding Compounding Pharmacies” — Public Citizen" data-secret="axtxTDTEjr" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> Public Citizen responds to the questions regarding pharmacy compounding that were posed by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP Committee). The HELP Committee and other congressional committees responsible for overseeing the activities of the FDA should fully investigate the role this agency, as well as others, played in allowing the widespread fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated injectable steroids produced by the New England Compounding Center to occur.https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/public_citizen_shared_link.jpg1200628