Vaccine Development Challenges Include Extensive Quality Control, Sanofi's Loew Notes

Sanofi spends 70% of vaccine production on quality control, Sanofi Pasteur exec VP David Loew tells the Pink Sheet; company is working on next generation flu vaccines that may provide greater efficacy.

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While drug development is a long and arduous process, it is far more difficult to produce a vaccine. That's what Sanofi Pasteur Exec VP David Loew learned after moving from the pharma side of the business to vaccines.

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