What are Health Canada and the vaccine manufacturers doing about porcine circovirus DNA contamination in rotavirus vaccines?
Health Canada has been working closely with vaccine manufacturers and other international regulators, including the US Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization, to facilitate an international response to this issue. On March 26, 2010, GlaxoSmithKline posted information on their website relating to the manufacture of Rotarix and the presence of PCV-1. Health Canada then posted a statement to our website that same day to notify Canadians and health care professionals that no lots of Rotarix were on the market in Canada and that the Canadian RotaTeq vaccine was not known to be contaminated with PCV-1. On May 7, 2010, Merck posted information on their website relating to the presence of PCV-1 and PCV-2 in their RotaTeq vaccine and GlaxoSmithKline posted an information update on their website disclosing the presence of PCV-1 in their Rotarix vaccine. That same day, Health Canada issued an information update for Canadians and health care professionals that indicated tha
