A prosecutor has slammed a pharmacist for showing a ‘shocking disregarding for human life’ as he stands accused of triggering a meningitis outbreak with contaminated drugs which killed 76 people and sickening another 778.
Glenn Chin, a former supervisory pharmacist at New England Compounding Center, oversaw the production in filthy conditions of tainted steroids, the court heard.
Those drugs contained mold, and led to a deadly nationwide outbreak of the infection in 2012, when NECC sent out nearly 18,000 vials of the infected injectable steroids to 23 states.
In June, the co-founder of the now-defunct production company, Barry Cadden, was sentenced to nine years in prison after he was cleared of murder but found guilty of racketeering and fraud.
Now, Chin, 49, faces a life sentence if found guilty of second-degree murder for failing to meet sanitary standards.
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