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FDA goes to court to secure drugs for lethal injections
Source: BBC
1 June 2012 Last updated at 04:47 GMT
FDA goes to court to secure drugs for lethal injections
By Matt McGrath
Science reporter, BBC World Service
The US Food and Drug Administration is going to court to secure supplies of a drug used in lethal injections.
Sodium thiopental is used in many states to anaesthetise prisoners before the administration of other chemicals that extinguish life.
However supplies have dwindled in the US after a judge banned its importation in March.
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The last US manufacturer of sodium thiopental ceased production in 2009. Since then the drug has been imported mainly from companies within the European Union. Several states purchased supplies from a UK based firm called Dream Pharma, run from a driving school in west London.
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FDA goes to court to secure drugs for lethal injections
By Matt McGrath
Science reporter, BBC World Service
The US Food and Drug Administration is going to court to secure supplies of a drug used in lethal injections.
Sodium thiopental is used in many states to anaesthetise prisoners before the administration of other chemicals that extinguish life.
However supplies have dwindled in the US after a judge banned its importation in March.
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The last US manufacturer of sodium thiopental ceased production in 2009. Since then the drug has been imported mainly from companies within the European Union. Several states purchased supplies from a UK based firm called Dream Pharma, run from a driving school in west London.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18253578
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