People’s Daily Health Client Sun Huan
On March 1, the official website of the State Food and Drug Administration announced that the World Health Organization stated that the Sabin strain (Vero cell) inactivated polio vaccine ( sIPV) is pre-qualified and available for procurement by the United Nations system.
People’s Daily Health Client noticed that since May 2013, the live attenuated JE vaccine of Sinopharm Zhongsheng Co., Ltd. Chengdu Co. After the “zero breakthrough”, vaccines have entered the international market one after another in recent years. This time Sinopharm’s inactivated polio vaccine is the seventh Chinese-made vaccine that has passed pre-certification.
Currently WHO prequalified Chinese vaccines
Related information shows that polio is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that mainly affects young children. The virus is spread through contaminated food and water, multiplying in the gut, and then attacking the nervous system. In rare cases, the disease can cause permanent paralysis.
WHO prequalification is a United Nations action plan launched in 2001 to expand the selection of priority medicines with the goal of ensuring the quality, efficacy and safety of medicines procured by international funds, and service development patients in China.
The State Food and Drug Administration stated that China’s inactivated biological polio vaccine has passed the WHO pre-certification, marking that China’s vaccine product supervision, development and production system and product quality have been recognized internationally. It will also make a major contribution to the global eradication of poliomyelitis.
