FP Report -- March 1999
Company recalls one lot of DTaP vaccine
Check the AAFP Web site or AAFP Express for recommendations
Pasteur Mérieux Connaught USA has issued a voluntary recall of Tripedia™ DTaP vaccine, lot number 0916490, and will replace any remaining inventory that is returned. Routine stability testing has determined that the lot has fallen below specifications for potency prior to the product's expiration date, in regard to diphtheria.
Because many doses of the vaccine may have been administered, the CDC -- in conjunction with AAFP and the American Academy of Pediatrics -- prepared recommendations on what should be done for children who have received vaccine from the suboptimal lot.
The recommendations are available on the AAFP Web site at www.aafp.org/ alert and on AAFP Express, the Academy's fax-on-demand system, at (800) 223-7397 (follow the voice prompts and request document #7002).
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1999 by American Academy of Family Physicians.
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