The Ministry of Health explained, through a video published on social networks, the expiration date of the vaccines, after the allegations of double labeling of the vaccines. The portfolio in charge of Carla Vizzotti ratified the effectiveness of the drugs and gave details about the “shelf life” that governs the compounds. In the video, the health portfolio emphasized the evaluation reviews used by the different control agencies around the world, “based on the scientific evidence of the laboratories.” In a pandemic, the first cut of the phase three clinical trial was at six months. When they finish, the laboratory opens some of the bottles it had saved and evaluates if the products are still the same,” begins the informative video of the Ministry of Health.
Do you have doubts about the expiration of vaccines? Here we explain how its useful life is determined and the mechanisms that allow us to know if it can be extended #ConocerMásSalud pic.twitter.com/lrL862E34t — Ministry of Health of the Nation (@msalnacion)
July 12, 2022
“If the laboratory sees that in the stability tests of the first bottles that it left unopened, the vaccines retain their properties, they present the data to the regulatory entities to extend the expiration dates,” the news item details. Thus, if the compound passes the review, progress is made with the extension of another 6 months of shelf life, on the date printed on the batch of marketing of the vaccine. On June 13, the ANMAT had officially reported the details about the extension of expirations of sars-COV 2 vaccines, within the framework of provision 705/2005 and Law 27.573.De this way, the Ministry of Health dismissed the complaints made by the media “El Comercial” of Formosa, which days ago had published an article denouncing the double labeling of SARS-COV 2 vaccines that were applied in the province. Indeed, the extension of the compounds was six months, as provided for by the control body for medicines, food and medical devices.
