So we are only assuring patient safety in cases in which the State acts as well as the Federal Government acting. Is that right?

The current state of our oversight of the compounding industry is outdated and inadequate.

Less than a quarter of the State boards provide inspectors any training to detect problems with sterile compounding.

I feel a special duty to ensure that we do everything possible to protect people from unsafe drugs.

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No State boards of pharmacy require the pharmacies to disclose the amount of drug they are compounding or whether they're sold across State lines.

So you're telling me that we really have some serious gaps there, potentially.

Why don't you know how many people have been killed from these drugs?

I just want to say I think it's unconscionable that we have failed to regulate this industry for so long and put the public at risk.

I think we have a different response here.

But, basically, the compounding industry doesn't tell, and as long as they don't tell, we don't have the kind of public scrutiny that causes us to move forward with this kind of legislation.