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Shire to Build New Plasma Mfg. Facility in GA

Will expand capacity by approximately 30%

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By: Kristin Brooks

Managing Editor, Contract Pharma

Shire plc has filed its first submission to the U.S. FDA for the company’s new plasma manufacturing facility in Covington, GA. The facility will expand capacity by approximately 30% once fully operational. Commercial production is expected to begin in 2018. The submission is for the transfer of GAMMAGARD LIQUID [Immune Globulin Infusion (Human)] 10% Solution, a replacement therapy for primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI). The company expects to make a second submission to the FDA in 20...

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