brother, Gregory
Conigliaro, opened
Conigliaro
Engineering in a run-
down building in
Framingham, Mass.
In 1991, Greg's com-
pany began recy-
cling materials. It
converted plastic,
metal, glass and
paper into recycling
bins, flowerpots and pothole repair material. The go-getting Tufts
University civil engineering grad decided to start the company on
Earth Day 1990, and in just a few years had a growing business.
Then there was Lisa's other brother, Douglas Conigliaro, MD, a
Florida anesthesiologist and pain management specialist. Since he
used them all the time, Dr. Conigliaro was very familiar with the need
for injectable medications for pain management.
Only the family knows the conversations that took place, but in
1998, the Caddens and the Conigliaros decided to combine their tal-
ents, entrepreneurial drive and know-how and formed the New
England Compounding Center (NECC).
Since sterile compounding requires clean rooms, it might have made
sense to locate the pharmacy in an office complex. But Greg already
owned industrial property at 701 Waverly St., in Framingham, so the
family decided to locate in his compound, right next door to the recy-
cling plant. FDA and Massachusetts state pharmacy board investigators
would later observe that NECC's HVAC units were positioned only
about 100 feet away from the recycling facility and the plumes of infec-
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NECC's facility was next door to a recycling plant
that produced plumes of infectious dust.
AP
Photo/Marshall
Wolff,
The
MetroWest
Daily
News
