Lawmakers grill FDA chief on outbreak - The Hill's Healthwatch

House lawmakers went another round with the chief U.S. drug regulator Tuesday over a deadly meningitis outbreak and how federal authorities should oversee the type of pharmacy that produced it. 

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg pleaded with lawmakers for more authority to regulate firms like the New England Compounding Center (NECC), which made the tainted steroid injections that have killed 53 and sickened more than 700 since last fall.

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Lawmakers grill FDA chief on outbreak - The Hill's Healthwatch