FDA Faulted on Flu Vaccine Shortage
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Democrats attacked U.S. drug regulators for missing "repeated opportunities to correct" problems at the plant where contaminated flu shots led to the current shortage.
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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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Congress started an investigation 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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U.S. regulators were trying to decide whether to allow the release of 48 million doses of Chiron Corp.'s flu vaccine when British authorities stepped in to block the company from shipping the vaccine, FDA officials said Friday.
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The Food and Drug Administration again said the agency had no early indications that there were serious problems at a British vaccine company that was supposed to supply half of the  U.S. flu vaccine.
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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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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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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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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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A flu vaccination shortage that  caused lines of anxious elderly people outside drug stores and  clinics across America prompted a fierce pre-election exchange  of accusations between Democrats and Republicans on Monday.
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LONDON - Global and U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...
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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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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to ease a major shortage of flu shots, is in discussions with two companies that sell flu vaccine in Canada and elsewhere, and have found a few million unsold doses.
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Oct. 8, 2004 -- Government health officials and vaccine manufacturers warn that they can do little to ease the expected widespread flu shot shortages announced earlier this week.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services calls the loss of the flu vaccine made by Chiron Corp. a &quot;serious challenge&quot; to the nation&#39;s vaccine supply.
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Concerned health officials began investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the U.S. flu shots were made, and called on more companies to get into the vaccine business.
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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