Article posted: 10/23/2012 7:16 PM

Firm in meningitis case: Officials inspected

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Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Healthcare Safety, addresses reporters in Boston on Tuesday regarding the Massachusetts pharmacy responsible for the meningitis outbreak. The outbreak has sickened nearly 300 people, including 23 who died, in more than a dozen states.

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An attorney for a Massachusetts company linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak says it’s “hard to imagine” state regulators didn’t know the scale of its operations because it’s worked so closely with them.