Court Orders Pharmacy to Stop Sterile Compounding

A federal court has entered a permanent injunction against a Pennsylvania compounding pharmacy after the Food and Drug Administration raised concerns about the sterility of its products. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Ranier’s Rx Laboratory Inc., doing business as Ranier’s Compounding Laboratory, of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and against pharmacist Francis H. Ranier, its owner. Under the consent decree, neither the pharmacy nor Ranier may resume sterile compounding opera...