On May 4th, 2021, Hospira—a Pfizer company, issued a voluntary nationwide recall to lot DN9185 for potential presence of visible particles. This drug product is a sterile water for injectables and is used to dilute or dissolve drugs for injection. Risks to patients are rare, but could potentially conclude anaphylaxis, fever, gastrointestinal disturbances, vein irritation,…
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Pfizer’s Newest Vaccine Plant Has History of Mold Issues and Recalls
On Wednesday, March 10th 2021, WebMD posted an article with information on the newest vaccine plant the FDA are allowing to produce COVID-19 vaccines. This plant is owned by Pfizer, located in Kansas and is now booked to produce the most urgently needed drug product. Although, there is one main concern; there is a known…
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Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 Vaccine Recall
15 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines ruined from a manufacturer in Baltimore. These vaccines were scheduled to be delivered within the next month; but quality control is now being questioned. At the manufacturer—Emergent BioSolutions, they mixed up the ingredients for the J&J single-dose vaccine with a different COVID-19 vaccine that was being produced in the…
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Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Recall
With the click of a button, The Identifier System could have quickly tracked and traced the origin of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine defects and its distribution trail. On March 23, 2021, Hong Kong puts a stop on distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine to residents. Many containers were flawed among a batch of 585,000 doses due to packaging…
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