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New challenge for covid vaccine makers in Europe: Labels in 24 languages

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BRUSSELS : It is hard enough developing a vaccine in record time to halt a global pandemic. But what if you need to print the instructions with every dose in Portuguese, Lithuanian and Greek?Drugmakers are asking the European Union to loosen rules that require medicines sold in the bloc to include full documentation in 24 separate languages, worried that this could slow down the rapid deployment of hundreds of millions of doses."We need an early agreement from EU authorities on the language to be used on the packs and labels for COVID-19 vaccines," said Michel Stoffel, head of regulatory affairs at Vaccines Europe, which represents big vaccine makers including GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and AstraZeneca .He told Reuters the industry was pushing.

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