But the small number of foreign companies making midazolam or vecuronium bromide also follow comprehensive distribution controls.
That statement says: "To ensure our products are not used in capital punishment, Sagent is implementing appropriate distribution controls and other measures.
Only two manufacturers of midazolam in America – Akorn and Sagent, both headquartered in Illinois – have failed to put distribution controls in place that prevent the chemical being sold to US corrections departments for use in executions.
Most drug companies distributing in the US, such as APP, Lundbeck and West-Ward, have imposed strict distribution controls on medicines that could be used by death penalty states to execute their death row inmates.
The Drug Enforcement Administration registers all people who handle opiates, inspects the documentation of opiate distribution, controls imports and exports and oversees the amount of the drugs produced, bought, sold or otherwise transferred.
Within a year, the drug-makers Fresenius Kabi, Teva, and Hospira had put distribution controls on propofol and other drugs that were part of state protocols for lethal injections.
