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Novartis starts shipping Flucelvax ahead of upcoming flu season

Novartis has started shipping vaccines for customers in the U.S. in advance of the next flu season, which doesn't include a quadrivalent offering like many of its competitors. But the shipments will include Flucelvax, which now has an FDA-licensed American plant that's poised for production whenever flu shots are needed.

Novartis facility grabs FDA license to produce cell-culture vaccines

After getting the FDA's OK for cell-culture vaccine Flucelvax back in November 2012, Novartis now has a U.S. facility licensed by the agency to produce it. The drugmaker's Holly Springs, NC, plant is now the country's first pandemic-ready site with the regulator's green light to make cell-culture flu vaccines, it said Monday.