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Written by: Huang Weilun
2021-03-25 10:11
Last update date: 2021-03-25 10:11
The government suddenly announced yesterday (24th) that the caps and packaging of some of the batches of Fubitai vaccine were defective and that vaccination should be suspended immediately.
Cui Junming, president of the Hong Kong Institute of Hospital Pharmacists, said on a radio program this morning (25th) that the incident was rare and problems with the closure of multiple medicine bottles were discovered in a short period of time.
He continued that part of the metal ring used to fix the rubber stopper of the medicine bottle was loose. It is estimated that it may be because the pharmaceutical factory needs to produce more than 100 million doses of vaccine, which has caused fatigue in the plant machinery and caused problems with the bottle cap.
He revealed that pharmacists in the United Kingdom and the United States reported that the bottle cap of the local BioNTech vaccine had the same problem.
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The Director of Health, Chan Han-yee, said yesterday that a total of 16 times, the caps of the medicine bottles were found to be "crooked" or loose.
Cui Junming said on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millenniums" this morning that although metal rings have been found loose in other medicine bottles in the past, there are now a large number of them and they think the situation is rare. Pharmacists in the United Kingdom and the United States have also reported similar problem.
He estimated that because the pharmaceutical factory had to produce more than 10 million or even more than 100 million doses of vaccine in a short period of time, the plant machinery might become fatigued, causing packaging quality problems.
Cui Junming said that the incident was rare, and several medicine bottle caps were found to be defective in a short period of time.
(Data Picture/Photo by Gao Zhongming)
Regarding whether the vaccine can be spot-checked in advance to confirm the quality of the packaging, Cui Junming said that because the vaccine is sensitive to temperature, spot-checking may affect the quality of the vaccine, and it may not be feasible.
He said that packaging defects can be detected with the naked eye. Before vaccination, pharmacists, nurses and other medical staff will monitor the quality of packaging and check the quality of the packaging for the public.
He also said that even if the rubber stopper of the medicine bottle is loosened and there is a gap, since inactive gas, such as nitrogen, has been injected during the production of the vaccine, the air may not necessarily affect the quality of the vaccine.
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The accident may affect the time for citizens to vaccinate Fubitai vaccine. Cui Junming said that Fubitai vaccine can be given a second dose 42 days apart. If it exceeds 42 days, it is actually not feasible, but the antibodies produced may be reduced. There is too much relevant data.
He also criticized that after the suspension of the vaccination program in Hong Kong, the pharmaceutical factory failed to provide follow-up arrangements, describing the lack of responsibility.
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