White Floating Contaminants Found in Pfizer Vaccine in Several Japanese Cities: Officials

White Floating Contaminants Found in Pfizer Vaccine in Several Japanese Cities: Officials
A vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Los Angeles, Calif., on Aug. 23, 2021. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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Foreign matter has been discovered in five unused vials of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine near Tokyo, Japan, and one vial in Osaka Prefecture, officials said on Tuesday.

The vials containing white floating matter belong to the same Pfizer vaccine lot, said the cities of Sagamihara, and Kamakura, and Sakai, according to the Kyodo News agency. They requested that Pfizer should review the substances in the vials.
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