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Domestic Vaccine Production Recommences

October 2007 | Company News Alert
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South Africa is poised to regain the capacity to manufacture vaccines following an announcement by public-private partnership (PPP) the Biovac Institute that it has begun production of small quantities of hepatitis B vaccine for validation and testing by the Medicines Control Council (MCC). BMI expects approval to be put onto a fast track given the strategic value of local vaccine manufacturing capacity, so commercial production could begin before the end of