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VACCINE
Volume 22, Issue 19, Pages 2452-2456Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2003.11.071
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new vaccine adjuvants; delivery systems; regulatory considerations
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Interest in vaccine adjuvants and new delivery systems has grown rapidly over the past few years. New vaccine candidates have emerged, which, because of their poor immunogenicity, rely on adjuvants to improve their presentation and targeting and to potentiate their protective immune response. Better understandings of the mechanisms of action, together with logistic and economical considerations have resulted in an explosion of technologies. However, there have been few new registered products for human use, and antigens incorporated into immunostimulating reconstituted influenza virosomes have only relatively recently been licensed in European Union (EU) countries. Influenza vaccine, adjuvanted with water in oil emulsion containing squalene (adjuvant MF59C1) is now also approved. Although current EU regulations focus on traditional adjuvants, notably aluminium and calcium salts, advances have been made in regulatory considerations. The European agency for the evaluation of medicinal products, through its working parties, is actively drafting guidance on requirements for the evaluation of new adjuvants in vaccines. This paper summarises the new developments in EU regulatory aspects relevant to adjuvant quality at development stages, during the manufacturing process, and at the final bulk stage of adjuvant with antigen, and also summarises regulatory expectation regarding safety at pre-clinical and clinical stages. The paper highlights the regulatory concerns and existing bottlenecks that have led to slow approval of new technologies. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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