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First US plant for cell-based flu vaccines opened
Quick ReadSwiss drug maker Novartis opens first US plant to produce flu vaccine grown in cell cultures
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis AG has opened the first U.S. plant to produce flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods, it said Tuesday.
The new site in Holly Springs, North Carolina, is unlikely to ramp up output in time to produce vaccines for the current swine flu pandemic, but will be active from 2011.
Total investment in the facility,...
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