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 Glenn Adam Chin, 46, a former pharmacist at the now-defunct New
England Compound Company, which produced the tainted steroid that
sparked the outbreak, was arrested last week as he boarded a flight
to Hong Kong for a family wedding.
He was charged with one count of mail fraud for approving the
shipment of 17,000 tainted vials of the medication, used for back
pain, despite knowing they had not been properly sterilized or
tested, federal prosecutors in Boston said.
His attorney at the time described the arrest as a publicity stunt,
saying that Chin, a father of two young children who lives in
Canton, Massachusetts, had no plans to flee the country but was
simply attending a family function.
Chin was ordered to remain under house arrest until his family
returned to the United States.
The outbreak pushed NECC into bankruptcy and led to stricter
national regulation of custom medication makers, which had
previously escaped the tight oversight that drug manufacturers face.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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