FDA did­n't con­duct any new in­spec­tions of Covid-19 vac­cine man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ties pri­or to is­su­ing EUAs

The FDA did not con­duct any new in-per­son in­spec­tions of Covid-19 vac­cine man­u­fac­tur­ing plants pri­or to is­su­ing the EUAs for Pfiz­er, Mod­er­na and J&J’s shots, the Gov­ern­ment Ac­count­abil­i­ty Of­fice said Wednes­day in a new re­port.

In­stead, the agency had to re­ly on his­tor­i­cal find­ings for the 18 man­u­fac­tur­ing sites, al­though the GAO not­ed that the FDA was not re­quired by law to con­duct new in­spec­tions of the sites.

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