Moderna Recalls 764,900 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses After Contamination Found

Vials of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in Bridgeport, Conn., in a file image. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Moderna Inc. on Friday issued a recall in Europe involving 764,900 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine “Spikevax” after contaminants were discovered in a vial.

“The lot is being recalled due to a foreign body being found in one vial in the lot manufactured at the company’s contract manufacturing site, ROVI,” Moderna and Spain’s ROVI Pharma Industrial Services said in a joint statement.