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One of the differences, though, between a drug company and a compounding pharmacy is that the pharmacy is only licensed to compound drugs for individual prescriptions - for individual, named patients. So it's by definition very small-batch preparation. There aren't many true compounding pharmacies anymore and they provide a needed service. However - this company, and others, were violating their licenses by preparing drugs in quantity for providers, not as filled prescriptions. Mass preparation differs from small-batch, and quality control isn't going to be there if it isn't built in to the process.

Hence the problem. There have also been accounts, not yet completely verified, that the culture of the place was to push production at the expense of quality checks. For example, product was shipped before control checks had come back from labs. Some drugs were recalled due to concentration problems. This is more than scary - we're talking bags of fentanyl and other OR medications that were made up at erroneous concentrations. NOT okay.

The compounding pharmacies need to keep to their licenses, period.