An Oahu Circuit judge ruled yesterday to permit a class-action lawsuit to proceed against a national drug distribution firm and its local office, which are accused of selling recycled drugs in Hawaii. The lawsuit alleges that during the 1990s IPC Pharmacy, owned by Pennsylvania-based Amerisource Bergen, accepted pills returned by nursing homes and recycled them either by returning them to bulk container bottles or by relabeling them.
Posted by Editor at September 18, 2003 05:13 PM