TOKYO, Sept. 2 – Moderna, Inc., a US pharmaceutical company, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Japanese pharmaceutical company jointly announced Wednesday that It is working with Japanese government officials to recall the coronavirus vaccine, or COVID-19, after an investigation found that foreign matter contaminated in the bottle was stainless steel. also known as stainless steel
Japan’s health ministry said on Wednesday that Based on the investigation data of Moderna and Takeda. Stainless steel particles have not been found to pose an additional health risk. As Moderna said Stainless steel contamination can occur in the production of vaccines. A joint statement released by Moderna Takeda, the Japanese distributor of Modernna vaccines and Spanish vaccine maker Rovi, that bottled the vaccines for Moderna, said the cause was The most likely cause of such contamination is Two metal friction in a machine used to seal a vaccine bottle cap. It also stated that Stainless steel is often used in medical applications for heart valves, prosthetic joints, metallic threads and staples. Injecting such particles found in a number of vaccines in Japan does not constitute an additional medical risk.
Earlier, the Japanese government had suspended the use of vaccines against COVID-19. Three lots of moderna amounted to 1.63 million doses last week. After receiving reports of foreign matter found in 39 bottles of vaccine, however, the vaccine containing the foreign matter came from the same lot. As a precaution, Japan has suspended the use of other modernlot vaccines in three regions this week. It stated that a foreign object was found in an unopened vaccine bottle. And there may be foreign objects in the vaccine bottle as a result of incorrectly inserting the syringe in the bottle causing the rubber stopper of the vaccine bottle to break into small pieces.-Thai News Agency
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