make sterile

In January, a month after the announcement that the old Mylan plant would shut down, Civica unveiled plans to build a 120,000-square-foot factory in Virginia to make sterile injectable drugs, which have been particularly hard to source.

This would enable researchers to identify gene targets that could be manipulated to achieve a range of effects: to disrupt the mosquito’s host-targeting systems; to make sterile males; to convert females into harmless males; or to render the insect incapable of harbouring viruses.

Collins also said he would hire two outside consulting firms to review all hospital facilities that make “sterile or infused products” given to patients who participate in NIH research.

Since death penalty drugs are injected, they could only be made at a small handful of them in Minnesota that are licensed to make sterile preparations, or perhaps at hospital pharmacies.

Markey's proposal differs from legislation approved by a Senate committee on Wednesday that would give the FDA oversight only over compounding pharmacies that make sterile products and ship them across state lines.