Congressional Hearings and Reports on the Meningitis Outbreak
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
On November 14, 2012, the US House
Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on the "The
Fungal Meningitis Outbreak: Could It Have Been Prevented?”. To view the video of the hearing or review
related document please visit:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/fungal-meningitis-outbreak-could-it-have-been-prevented
On November
15, 2012, the Senate Committee on Health, Pensions, Education and Labor (HELP)
released its report entitled: The New England Compounding Center and the
Meningitis Outbreak of 2012: A Failure to Address Risk to the Public Health http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11_15_12%20HELP%20Staff%20Report%20on%20Meningitis%20Outbreak.pdf
On October
29, 2012, the office of Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey released its
report on the Meningitis Outbreak entitled "Compounding Pharmacies, Compounding
Risk” http://markey.house.gov/sites/markey.house.gov/files/documents/Compounding%20Pharmacies%20-%20Compounding%20Risk%20FINAL_0.pdf
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