$350 Million for H1N1 in State Grants, $1 Billion for H1N1 Vaccine Ingredients
Monday, July 13th, 2009“There’ll be another $1 billion worth of orders placed to get the bulk ingredients for an H1N1 vaccination” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on July 12, confirming rumors that the U.S. will spend another $1 billion for an H1N1 vaccine ingredients. In May of this year, HHS distributed 11 million treatment [...]
Rising Demand for Vaccine Consumables
Friday, June 5th, 2009Demand is rising for consumables used in vaccine production: specialty filters, aseptic single-use bags and other disposables for sterile filtration of pharmaceutical liquids and for storage and transport of intermediate serum products. These products are high margin segment within the bioparmaceutical product array. Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international supplier for the pharma and biotech [...]