The Second Meeting of the National Control Laboratories for Vaccines and Biologicals in the Western Pacific, was jointly organized by the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in the Republic of Korea, and by the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific.

In the National Lot Release Systems session countries including Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Republic of Korea, all shared information on their current Lot Release Systems, including current practices and developments in risk-based official lot release of vaccines.

In the session on Quality Control of Blood Products, experts from the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control shared quality control and research results for; blood coagulation factor VIII products, and the measurement of procoagulant activity in immunoglobulin products. Representatives from Japan proposed a regional collaborative study to test aggregated immunoglobulin free from complement activity. A cell-based Japanese encephalitis vaccine potency assay was proposed by representatives from Korea and they also called for voluntary participation of other National Control Laboratories in a collaborative study, on the first Korean Gloydius anti-venom standard. Participants agreed in general to continue communicating, and coordinate presentation of the study results.

The first meeting of the National Control Laboratories for Vaccines and Biologicals in the Western Pacific Region was held on September 1–2, 2016 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. The meeting objectives were to share results of current research and to promote collaboration between the National Control Laboratories. To this end, we first discussed each country’s current status of research on quality control of biologicals. Next, we reviewed quality control of snake venom and antivenom production and the progress of a collaborative study on the Korean reference standard candidate for snake venom. We also discussed the establishment of the second regional reference standard antivenom and the characterization of the Vero cell genome landscape and its application to quality control. Moreover, we also reflected on the importance of collaboration among interested parties participating in this meeting. In conclusion, the meeting initiated networking between the national control laboratories in the Western Pacific region and paved the way to continue collaboration, which will eventually improve the region’s capacity for quality control of biologicals.

Citations

Citations to this article as recorded by  

• Effect of Agkistrodon halys antivenom in patients bit by green pit viper and the prognostic role of the disease – a retrospective cohort study
  Zhong-Yi Zeng, Pei-Ying Huang, Jia-Yu Du, Yu-Xiang Liu, Shi-Gong Guo, Lin-Sheng Zeng, Cong-Cong Zhang, Yi Li
  Clinical Toxicology.2022; 60(7): 808.     CrossRef
• Determination of the potency of a cell-based seasonal quadrivalent influenza vaccine using a purified primary liquid standard
  Hitoshi Takahashi, Takao Fujimoto, Fumiaki Horikoshi, Tae Uotani, Mie Okutani, Noriko Shimasaki, Itsuki Hamamoto, Takato Odagiri, Eri Nobusawa
  Biologicals.2020; 68: 32.     CrossRef
• The 2nd Meeting of National Control Laboratories for Vaccines and Biologicals in the Western Pacific
  Hokyung Oh, Jinho Shin, Chung Keel Lee, Masaki Ochiai, Kiyoko Nojima, Chang Kweng Lim, Sanj Raut, Irene Lisovsky, Stella Williams, Ki Young Yoo, Dong-Yeop Shin, Manabu Ato, Qiang Ye, Kiwon Han, Chulhyun Lee, Naery Lee, Ji Young Hong, Kikyung Jung, Pham Va
  Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives.2018; 9(3): 133.     CrossRef
• Measles control in Australia – threats, opportunities and future needs
  C. Raina MacIntyre, Elizabeth Kpozehouen, Mohana Kunasekaran, Kathleen Harriman, Stephen Conaty, Alexander Rosewell, Julian Druce, Nicolee Martin, Anita E. Heywood, Heather F. Gidding, James Wood, Sonya Nicholl
  Vaccine.2018; 36(30): 4393.     CrossRef
• A Collaborative Study to Establish the Second Korean National Reference Standard for Snake Venom
  Kiwon Han, Kikyung Jung, Hokyung Oh, Hojin Song, Sangmi Park, Ji-Hye Kim, Garam Min, Byung-Hwa Lee, Hyun-sik Nam, Yang Jin Kim, Manabu Ato, Jayoung Jeong, Chiyoung Ahn
  Toxicological Research.2018; 34(3): 191.     CrossRef