Johnson and Johnson's vaccine to be on hold after workers at a Baltimore Manufacturing Plant got confused and mixed up the ingredients.

 

This mix-up is said to be ruining around 15 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson's vaccine. Federal officials called the mix-up a human error.

According to the reports, Emergent BioSolutions who is a manufacturing partner for Johnson and Johnson's had not received FDA Authorization to manufacture the ingredients for Johnson and Johnson's vaccine. This mix-up has delayed the future shipments of the Johnson and Johnson's vaccine in the United States.

It is a big problem and also an embarrassment for the company as it was said to be a one-dose vaccine. This mix-up might drop the companies reputation.

The Johnson and Johnson's company said in a statement that its "quality control process identified one batch of drug substance that did not meet quality standards at Emergent Biosolutions, a site not yet authorized to manufacture drug substance for our COVID-19 vaccine. This batch was never advanced to the filling and finishing stages of our manufacturing process."

This mistake made by the Johnson and Johnson's company does not affect the current doses or the doses that were given before because all those doses were manufactured in the Netherlands. There, the processes were fully agreed by the federal regulators.

The 24 million doses which were expected to come to be shipped from Baltimore are now questioned. 

The two vaccines from Johnson and Johnson's and AstraZeneca use the same technology. They put a harmless version of the virus which is known as vector. This vector then transmits into the cells to make a protein which will help the immune system to produce antibodies. Although both the vaccines use the same technology the vectors are biologically different and are not interchangeable

The mix-up did not just happen now. Earlier at the end of February, few workers were confused between the Johnson and Johnson's vaccine and AstraZeneca.

However, the positive point is that none of the Mix-up or confused doses were left from the plant.