FDA cancels meeting to discuss flu vaccine composition

FDA meeting to choose flu vaccine composition canceled without explanation | CNN A March meeting of outside advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration to discuss the composition of flu vaccines for this fall’s flu season has been canceled, a member of the advisory committee told CNN. Meg Tirrell CNN

The meeting of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, or VRBPAC, is held every March “to pick flu strains, because it’s a six-month production cycle for a vaccine released in September,” Dr. Paul Offit, a member of VRBPAC, told CNN Wednesday.

He said this year’s meeting had been set for March 13, and he received an email this afternoon saying it had been canceled.

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