Covid-19 man­u­fac­tur­ing roundup: Stain­less steel iden­ti­fied as for­eign item in Japan­ese Mod­er­na lots; DoD con­tract en­ables pipette man­u­fac­tur­ing

Af­ter more than 1.6 mil­lion dos­es of Mod­er­na’s Covid-19 vac­cine were sus­pend­ed last week in Japan, the coun­try’s health min­istry has iden­ti­fied the sus­pect par­ti­cles and said it will not pose a larg­er health risk.

Find­ings Wednes­day re­vealed that the metal­lic ma­te­r­i­al in­side the vials of vac­cines was stain­less steel, a ma­te­r­i­al Mod­er­na says does not pose ad­di­tion­al health risks to pa­tients. Take­da plans to re­call the three af­fect­ed lots of the vac­cine, Mod­er­na said Wednes­day.

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