Ban On Certain Vaccine Products Lifted
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 @ 11:14 AM
Victoria – Health Canada has announced that it has lifted the temporary
precautionary suspension on all Novartis influenza vaccine products in
Canada.
After extensive consultation with Novartis, and public health and
regulatory officials in Italy and Switzerland, as well as its own
product assessments, Health Canada has determined that there are no
safety concerns with any Novartis vaccine products in Canada or British
Columbia.
With this release for use, all Fluad and Agriflu products currently
distributed across health authorities in B.C. will be put back into use
in public influenza vaccine campaigns. That campaign is now underway
throughout the province. Novartis products represent about 30 per cent
of the provincial vaccine supply.
Both Fluad and Agriflu, influenza vaccines manufactured in Italy by
Novartis, had been pulled from vaccine campaigns in Canada and some
European countries following reports of clumping noted in a specific
vaccine batch; that batch was not released for use. Similar clumping
has not been discovered in any vaccine distributed in Canada.
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Never had one and will never get one!
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