9/11/14 - A pharmacist who worked for a Massachusetts company blamed for a 2012 deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak that killed several local residents will be in federal court today for his arraignment. The tainted steroids were shipped to Michigan Pain Specialists in Genoa Township and injected into patients. As a result, 217 of that clinicâs patients contracted fungal meningitis, and 15 of them died. They were among 64 people nationwide that died as a result of the outbreak. Prosecutors said Glenn Adam Chin (pictured) oversaw the sterile clean rooms at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, where the tainted steroids blamed for the outbreak were made. Chin, a supervisory pharmacist, is accused of participating in a scheme to fraudulently cause one lot to be labeled as injectable, meaning it was sterile and fit for human use. Chin, who was arrested last week and indicted Tuesday, is scheduled to be arraigned on a mail fraud charge in federal court. Image - Steven Senne/Associated Press (JK)
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