Former NECC Employees Reveal Compounding Facility's Conditions During 60 Minutes Segment
Former New England Compounding Center (NECC) employees reveal how workload and facility conditions contributed to the tragic meningitis outbreak linked to the company’s contaminated drugs in a 60 Minutes segment. The report features an interview with an NECC clean room technician who explains that the volume of drugs produced increased a thousand-fold in a short time, leading to unsafe practices. A former NECC salesperson indicated that the company had thousands of clients across the country and that drugs were not being compounded pursuant to patient prescriptions. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, told reporters that comprehensive legislation is needed to implement oversight of such facilities in order to prevent another tragedy such as the meningitis outbreak.