OTTAWA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Health Canada stated Friday it will not release the 300,000 Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses which arrived in Canada in April due to a possible pleasant difficulty.
"To shield the fitness and protection of Canadians in response to concerns regarding a drug substance produced on the Emergent BioSolutions facility in Baltimore Maryland, Health Canada will now not be releasing the shipment," the government branch stated in a statement.
The drug substance produced at the facility was used within the manufacturing of this cargo of Janssen vaccines.
"The drug substance become manufactured on the time a separate batch of vaccines turned into infected by using the components of a exclusive vaccine. Health Canada turned into not able to determine that this shipment of Janssen vaccines meets the Department's rigorous excellent standards," said the declaration.
To make certain the safety of any future vaccine deliver from this facility, Health Canada is planning an onsite inspection, anticipated to take vicinity this summer.
"Until this inspection has been finished, Canada will not be accepting any product or ingredients made at this website online," it stated.
The announcement came after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday that Johnson & Johnson have to throw away millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine that had been synthetic on the Baltimore facility.
The FDA halted production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on the Baltimore website online after discovering that ingredients from AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine also being produced at the plant on the time contaminated a batch of Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
An FDA inspection additionally reportedly located sanitary troubles and terrible production practices on the plant.
AstraZeneca's shot is not being made on the Baltimore facility, and Health Canada previously said that the 1.Five million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine it had imported from this facility were secure and met first-rate specs.
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