US Knew Last Year of Problems at Vaccine Plant
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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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U.S. health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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The Food and Drug Administration knew of problems at the Chiron factory in Liverpool, England where half of the flu vaccine headed to the United States was being produced, but did next to nothing about it until the plant shut down according to a report
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British officials say they warned the US government last month that problems at a drug manufacturing plant could disrupt influenza vaccines to the United States.
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After the US Food and Drug Administration discovered unsanitary conditions at a plant producing flu vaccine for the US market, the agency refused to order a cleanup, nor did it inspect the plant to ensure that a cleanup was actually carried out.
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US health officials shut the door Friday on the possibility of any flu vaccine from Chiron&#39;s troubled British plant ever reaching the United States this year.
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Chiron, the biotechnology company that left the US short of half its normal supply of flu vaccine this winter after contamination fears at its Speke factory in Liverpool, has
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The United States attorney&#39;s office has opened an investigation into last week&#39;s closure of a Liverpool factory that led to a drastic shortage in flu vaccines in the US and Britain.
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Quality-control problems found in 2003 &quot;resurfaced&quot; this year at the Liverpool, England, plant the USA was relying on for about half its flu vaccine, acting FDA Commissioner Lester
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British health officials said Friday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to ...
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(CBS/AP) Expect flu vaccine shortages again this year. Manufacturing problems mean half the US flu vaccine supply -- some 48 million doses -- won&#39;t arrive.
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LONDON -- British health officials said yesterday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States.
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar
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US health regulators say they found quality-control problems at a flu vaccine factory in Liverpool, England, in June 2003 but did not begin a full inspection of the plant again
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The FDA says it did not have any early warning that something may be seriously wrong with the USA&#39;s delivery of 48 million flu vaccine doses from Chiron&#39;s Liverpool (UK) plant.
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in some cases by the boatload -- in search of flu vaccine. With a US shortage caused by contaminated vaccine and
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Concerned health officials began  investigating what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where  half the U.S. flu shots were made, while Americans jostled for  now-scarce immunizations on Friday.