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Covid-19 Omicron boosters will reinvigorate injectables manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pfizer (New York, New York) and Moderna’s (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Omicron-specific Covid-19 vaccines are in late-stage development, have demonstrated good efficacy against the variant and will likely be available to the public later this year to provide an additional booster and increase demand for injectable manufacturing.

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FDA pens stinging report on Emergent COVID vaccine plant

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Emergent BioSolutions’ difficult month has been made worse by an FDA report into its facility in Baltimore, which has been blamed for the wastage of millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine. . AZ’s vaccine meanwhile has yet to be approved in the US. Award of federal contract probed.

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CMO Moves: Regulatory catalysts for drug manufacturing-December

Pharmaceutical Technology

In this last 2022 edition of the series, which started in June , Pharmaceutical Technology is tracking major trial announcements and decisions by regulators and reimbursement agencies that have occurred since mid-October, as well as their potential impact on manufacturing plans. Source: GlobalData Pharmaceutical Intelligence Center.

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AZ exits US vaccine plant after mix-up spoils J&J’s COVID jab

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AstraZeneca is shifting production of its COVID-19 vaccine away from a plant in Baltimore which also makes Johnson & Johnson’s shot, after human error resulted in the contamination of 15 million doses. . Emergent claims however that one batch of the vaccine simply failed quality controls, and no contamination took place.

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Novartis signs new initial agreement with BioNTech to support fill and finish of the mRNA Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

The Pharma Data

At least 24 million doses of the mRNA-based vaccine will be filled in 2022 into vials under sterile conditions at Novartis Technical Operations state-of-the-art facility in Ljubljana, Slovenia New agreement follows earlier supply agreement for the fill and finish of more than 50 million doses in 2021 at the Novartis Stein site in Switzerland.

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Brazil: untapped market for big pharma manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Manufacturing agreements for infectious diseases. Brazilian pharma production sites are involved in Covid-19 vaccine and therapy manufacture. Large Brazilian pharma companies already play a major role in distributing Covid-19 vaccines to all of Latin America. French and Italian manufacturers have two companies in Brazil.

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Russia’s focus on domestic pharma production could shield it from sanctions’ effects

Pharmaceutical Technology

Companies that own Russian pharma contract manufacturing or supply chain sites include Novo Nordisk (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); UPS (Atlanta, Georgia, US) subsidiary Marken (London, UK); Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) subsidiary Patheon (Durham, North Carolina); Servier (Paris, France); and Takeda (Tokyo, Japan).