Experts who sit on national vaccine advisory panels are asked to disclose any industry ties and other conflicts of interest. But an investigation published by The BMJ today finds that disclosure standards differ widely, often leaving the public in the dark.
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When it comes to authorizing COVID-19 vaccines, members of FDA s advisory committee and the U.K. s counterpart often have undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Panelists for these advisory committees are only required to share conflicts of interest from the last 12 months, and when they do disclose these relationships, the committees do not always consider them significant enough to disclose to the public.
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The BMJby American journalist Paul Thacker, who is currently based in Spain, found examples where experts had disclosed potential conflicts such as publication ties, grant receipts, and patents to their respective committees. However, the article noted that according to the minutes of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) and the U.K. s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) meetings, most committee experts registered no conflicts of interest as of late-to-mid December 2020.
Experts who sit on national vaccine advisory panels are asked to disclose any industry ties and other conflicts of interest. But an investigation published by The BMJ today finds that disclosure standards differ widely, often leaving the public in the dark.
Investigation finds disclosure standards differ widely, often leaving the public in the dark
Experts who sit on national vaccine advisory panels are asked to disclose any industry ties and other conflicts of interest. But an investigation published by The BMJ today finds that disclosure standards differ widely, often leaving the public in the dark.
Investigative journalist Paul D Thacker looked at experts sitting on the covid-19 authorisation committees at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as those on the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises the government on vaccines.
Both the FDA and the UK government require panellists to disclose conflicts only from the previous 12 months, “which can miss significant financial payments that occurred in recent years,” he notes.
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