POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE
Product Not Up To Standard
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 21.
Technical difficulties in the production of poliomyelitis vaccine in Australia have forced the New Zealand Department of Health to postpone the immunisation of 12 to 16-year-old children and 2 to 4-year-olds. The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, New Zealand’s only supplier of vaccine, has stopped exports to New Zealand and no stocks are on hand. Health authorities in Auckland do not knbw when new supplies will become available. Nor does the Australian laboratory, which first has to find out what is wrong with its production process. After producing many batches of perfectly good poliomyelitis vaccine, the laboratories’ routine series of very severe tests showed that the latest batch was not up to the usual standard.
Although this did not necessarily mean that this batch of vaccine was unsafe for use, it was decided not to issue any of this vaccine and to solve the technical difficulties first.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28542, 22 March 1958, Page 12
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