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Health commissioner wants to ban multidose vials

State Health Commissioner Richard Daines yesterday called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to eliminate the manufacture and distribution of medications in multidose vials, the source of hepatitis C transmission by Dr. Harvey Finkelstein of Dix Hills.

Even as he made the recommendation, Daines, speaking at Hofstra University yesterday, acknowledged it was not now entirely feasible...

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