The company whose Baltimore factory is at the center of manufacturing problems that caused Johnson & Johnson to discard millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine was flagged numerous times for federal quality control violations in the past, the Associated Press is reporting.
Emergent BioSolutions, based in Gaithersburg, had been scheduled to deliver 100 million doses of the J&J vaccine next month.
“The company has been cited repeatedly by the Food and Drug Administration for problems such as poorly trained employees, cracked vials and mold around one of its facilities,” the AP story says, citing records covering inspections since 2017 that it obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
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