This story originally appeared on MassLive.com.
A former owner and four former employees of the New England Compounding Center were convicted by a federal jury on Thursday for their roles in a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that sickened nearly 800 people and killed more than 100 of them.
There have now been 11 employees or executives of the drug compounding company convicted of ignoring safety precautions and forging documents to allow contaminated drugs to be manufactured and shipped.
