On March 22, 2017, ABC News reported the deadly meningitis trail, which the ex-pharmacy head was accused for producing contaminated medicine that caused death.
The investigators found unsanitary conditions with “filth, rusted equipment and insects” at the Boston-based New England Compounding Center, where contaminated medicines were produced.
The source incorporates government data that shows a total of 753 people across the country were stricken with an epidemic of infections, and 64 of them died, after receiving contaminated injections produced by Cadden’s company.
Creating public health crisis, Barry Cadden, the former president and co-founder of the NECC, was convicted of fraud, not guilty of murder.
Such investigative piece served as a watchdog in public health, which exposed the unsanitary conditions in pharmacy that doomed hundreds of people.