FDA Saw Problems at Vaccine Plant in 2003
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Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Julie Gerberding and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, are sworn-in before the House Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov.
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A string of problems were identified at the Bernard Matthews plant before the recent outbreak of bird flu.
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The company that makes half the flu vaccine used in the U.S. was suspended for manufacturing problems.
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The Food and Drug Administration is responding to the widespread criticism of the government's handling of drug safety problems.
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Nearly everyone seemed to have been caught off-guard last month when a British flu vaccine manufacturer was closed down by authorities because of contamination that was discovered at the company&#39;s Liverpool plant.
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This year&#39;s unexpected shortage of flu vaccine was a result of vaccine doses becoming contaminated during production. On October 5th, Chiron Corporation, a California-based biotechnology
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SAN FRANCISCO - The nation&#39;s vaccine supply for the coming flu season took a big hit yesterday when Chiron Corp. announced it found tainted doses at its factory.
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British and American drug regulators met yesterday to see what could be done about the stopped batches of flu vaccines at Chiron&#39;s Liverpool production plant, UK.
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Chiron Corp., which had to scrap its  flu vaccine this season due to contamination, said on Friday it  has received a warning from U.S. regulators in connection with  its shuttered vaccine manufacturing plant in England.
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NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, the US may face a profound shortage of flu vaccine. As a result of manufacturing problems, the biotech company that makes half of the flu shots needed in the US said it could not deliver any vaccine at all.
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Three hospital outbreaks of whooping cough occurred in 2003 among healthcare workers and patients, officials at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
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The Food and Drug Administration  said yesterday that it is making changes in the way it operates to prevent the kind of drug safety controversies that have dogged the agency in recent years.
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British health officials said Friday that US officials were warned in mid-September that ongoing problems at California-based Chiron&#39;s flu vaccine manufacturing plant in Liverpool, England, &quot;could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States
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In the last three inspections of the overseas factory that the USA was counting on for half its flu vaccine this year, FDA officials found serious problems but
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The Food and Drug Administration found serious problems of bacterial contamination at an influenza vaccine plant in England in 2003, 16 months before British regulators effectively closed the
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(National-NBC) Nov. 8, 2004 - A report in Monday&#39;s Kansas City Star newspaper says US inspectors knew five years ago there were contamination problems at a British plant that makes american flu vaccines.
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This year's flu season has started  slowly in the United States, where there are concerns about a  shortage of vaccine caused by production problems at a major  manufacturer, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention said on Monday.