Documents show FDA ignored warnings about flu-vaccine plant
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The Food and Drug Administration failed to heed repeated warnings of contamination at Chiron&#39;s now-shuttered British flu-vaccine plant and the urging of US inspectors
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As the nation prepared for a severe shortage of flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday that problems at the British plant that manufactured vaccine withheld by British authorities likely will be used as a "test case" to lobby for better information-sharing with European regulators.    Last Tuesday, British authorities blocked Chiron Corp...
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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 problems caused the loss of half the U.S. vaccine supply in October, the top FDA official said Wednesday.
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The nation's first vaccine against bird flu is even less effective than previously thought, according to Food and Drug Administration documents released Monday.
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WASHINGTON - It is unlikely that any of the nearly 50 million doses of influenza vaccine being held at a plant in England will be found safe and released to the United States, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
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Contamination in a British factory that  supplies flu vaccine to the United States is expected to cause  some delays but no shortage of flu shots this year, federal  health officials said on Friday.
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None of the 5 million or 6 million doses of influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. and currently warehoused in the United States has been given to the public, a Food and Drug Administration official said yesterday.
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The U.S. Congress began investigating on Wednesday whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ignored hundreds of proposals that could have improved the safety of food imported into the United States, former FDA officials told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.
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Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are criticizing the FDA for not adequately overseeing a British plant making flu vaccine for sale in 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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The United States last night branded the entire flu vaccine output of a Liverpool factory unsafe for distribution. Inspectors from the US Food and Drug Administration have rejected all of the 48m doses at the plant, run by the Californian company Chiron.
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Congress started an investigation on Tuesday into whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.
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Concerned health officials began investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the US flu shots were made
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None of Chiron Corp.&#39;s (CHIR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) flu vaccine made at a British plant is safe, which means the US flu vaccine
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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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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.