A state pharmacy inspector made a surprising discovery last year while conducting a routine records review at a Westside facility that compounded drugs for patients at UCLA medical centers. More than 1,000 IV bags of sterile medications for heart patients and others with serious health issues had been made with expired and potentially dangerous ingredients, according to state Board of Pharmacy records. Whether any patients were harmed is unknown, and UCLA, which owned and operated the compounding pharmacy, has refused to comment. The first, he said, is that the UCLA pharmacy provided compounded sterile medications to other pharmacies without the appropriate license to do that. Herold, the state pharmacy board executive, did address one of the causes for discipline – that the pharmacy lacked the proper license to manufacture and distribute compounded medications throughout the UCLA system.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 15, 2017 17:03 UTC