5. Mai 2021 – EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has adopted two important recommendations that will increase manufacturing capacity and supply of COVID-19 vaccines in the EU. EMA has approved an increase in batch size and associated process scale up at Pfizer’s vaccine manufacturing site in Puurs, Belgium. The recommendation by the Agency’s Committee for Human Medicines (CHMP) is expected to have a significant impact on the supply of Comirnaty, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, in the European Union. The CHMP also recommended the approval of a new filling line at Moderna’s finished product manufacturing site for the EU in Rovi, Spain. The new line will enable an increase in finished product fill activities, to synchronize with the active substance scale-up process at the active substance manufacturing site (Lonza, Visp) approved last month.

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