Vaccines contaminated with undisclosed ingredients. Manufacturers facing liability. In an Oct. 21 thread on X, entrepren
Pfizer, left, and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic, Nov. 17, 2022, in Richmond, Va. Experts said there’s no evidence that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are adulterated or contain ingredients that weren’t disclosed to regulators.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not list details on its website about what, if anything, would constitute an adulterated vaccine, but the agency provides some information about other adulterated products. The FDA saysthat"economically motivated adulteration" of food occurs when"someone intentionally leaves out, takes out, or substitutes a valuable ingredient or part of a food.
The SV40 promoter wasn’t specifically highlighted in Pfizer’s disclosures to regulators and"did not need to be," Wilson said,"because it is a nonfunctional part of the manufacturing process and not a bioactive ingredient in the drug product." But if a contaminant were found in a vaccine, the FDA would investigate and decide if it is a safety issue, Reiss said.Kirsch said that"the FDA is required to take the COVID vaccines off the market" because they are"adulterated."
Email interview with Dr. David H. Gorski, managing editor of Science-Based Medicine and a professor of surgery and oncology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Oct. 24, 2023Email interview with Kit Longley, a Pfizer spokesperson, Oct. 24, 2023Email exchange with spokesperson for Ven Johnson Law, Oct. 25, 2023
"OK, you were right. We admit the vaccine is contaminated with SV40, but we found some experts who think it's not a problem,"
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