Posts Falsely Claim FDA ‘Required’ to Take mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines off Market Due to Adulteration
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As with many medical products, the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines may contain trace amounts of residual DNA from the manufacturing process. It is not considered adulteration, and the Food and Drug Administration is not “required” to pull the vaccines from the market, contrary to viral claims online.
How do we know vaccines are safe?
When vaccines such as the mRNA COVID-19 shots are mass-produced, bits of DNA from the manufacturing process are sometimes left over in very small amounts. This residual DNA is expected and regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Recently, some people have claimed that the residual DNA in some mRNA COVID-19 vaccine vials is above the regulatory limit — and that some of the short sequences could be harmful and cause cancer if they integrated into a person’s genome. But as we have written, there isn’t reliable evidence that the residual DNA in the vaccines is too high, nor is there evidence that the DNA integrates, much less that it causes cancer or any other health problem.
Still, some individuals have continued to press the issue, making new false or unsupported legal claims related to the alleged “contamination.”
