NIH contamination probed; non-sterile work to continue
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The Republican and Democratic heads of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on 5 June demanded answers about what led to the breakdown at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in which at least six patients were possibly exposed to contaminated products made by the agency's Pharmaceutical Development Section (PDS) – calling the incident "alarming."