Meningitis: US lawmakers promise action to prevent further outbreaks

Tom Harkin says better federal regulation of compounders needed but industry lobby blames FDA for not enforcing laws The chairman of a congressional panel investigating a health scandal that has killed 32 people and sickened 400 promised to take action to prevent such a tragedy happening again. Senator Tom Harkin, of the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee, said that better federal regulation was needed to stop companies such as the New England Compounding Center from acting l...