The FDA finds poor circumstances on the Baltimore plant that ruined hundreds of thousands of doses of the J&J Covid vaccine

A detail of Janssen Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine that is not currently being issued because it has been on hold.

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The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday a facility in Baltimore that ruined millions of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine doses was unsanitary and unsuitable for making the shots.

The FDA asked Emergent BioSolutions, which operates the facility, to temporarily suspend production of materials for Covid-19 vaccines earlier this month as the U.S. agency initiated an inspection.

The Biden administration hired J&J to run the Baltimore facility after US officials learned that Emergent, a contract manufacturer that made vaccines for J&J and AstraZeneca, mixed the ingredients for the two shots. Officials also stopped production of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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