In Brief: RabAvert shelf life

RabAvert shelf life: "While Connaught may have internal data which demonstrates a four-year shelf life stability for [its rabies vaccine] Imovax IM, their FDA approved dating period is much shorter" at 30 months, Chiron said in a Nov. 19 letter to "The Pink Sheet" ("The Pink Sheet" Nov. 10, T&G-2). FDA approved dating period for Chiron Behring's RabAvert rabies vaccine is 36 months, "although we have internal data demonstrating shelf life stability greater than four years under 2-8 conditions," Chiron said. In addition, RabAvert labeling notes that a test for the persistence of antibody showed that neutralizing antibody titers >.5 IU/mL were present two years after immunization and that the incidence of headache in trials of RabAvert vs. human diploid cell vaccine as 52% for RabAvert and 45% for HDCV...

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