Fight the Fakes’ member U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has recently launched a number of valuable materials to help identify substandard and falsified COVID-19 vaccines, which are free to the public.
Substandard and falsified vaccines erode the public’s trust in vaccines and hinder our ability to control the COVID-19 pandemic. To help ensure the quality of vaccines, USP offers its quality standards, best practices, and insights to guide manufacturing, packaging, and release processes. Their goal is to help increase access to quality-assured COVID-19 vaccines. Their resources are the following:
1. USP White Paper on Confronting Substandard and Falsified COVID-19 Vaccines: Strategies and tools for use in global settings, which can be downloaded here.
This document, which is relevant for current global, regional and national efforts from regulators, as well as multiple other involved stakeholders has the following key objectives: