Chiron Fluvirin production
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
Executive Summary
Chiron expects a full production season in 2006-2007 of 40 mil. doses for its influenza vaccine Fluvirin, the firm says Oct. 17. The company reports it has shipped 1.5 mil. doses of this year's formulation so far but that production for the full 2005-2006 season will be lower than previously expected. Chiron says it will not provide revised total production estimates for the current season. FDA released three lots of Fluvirin Sept. 14 (1Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly October 2005, p. 16). "Despite Chiron's lowered projections announced today, we still anticipate that there will be significantly more vaccine produced than last year," FDA said in a same-day press release...